Academy Awards, USA 2015
| Won Oscar | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Patricia Arquette |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Motion Picture of the Year Richard Linklater Cathleen Sutherland |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Ethan Hawke | |
| Best Achievement in Directing Richard Linklater | |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay Richard Linklater | |
| Best Achievement in Film Editing Sandra Adair |
IFC Films
Directed by Richard Linklater
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Paramount)
Epic story of a single mom and her two children, as she struggles to make something of her life and the kids just try to grow up. Told mostly from the point of view of Mason, the young boy, who can't understand why his father only visits occasionally or his sister constantly fights with him. Mom eventually gets remarried, but he turns out to be an angry alcoholic, and after a divorce and a few years living with friends, marries yet another drunken loser. She finally settles down in her middle age as a college professor. Meanwhile, Mason deals with his own teenage romance as he transitions from high school to college. The gimmick of using the same actors filmed over a decade doesn't really add much to the film, and actually becomes a distraction when you try to spot the jumps in time by hairstyles. Overlong by at least an hour, mostly because of dwelling on the teenage melodrama, with an anticlimactic ending that resorts to t-shirt philosophy as its ultimate insight: "it's always right now".
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