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In an impressively ambitious project, director Richard Linklater has created a film that uses the same cast over 12 years. There are few stories in Hollywood as ubiquitous as the coming of age drama.

“It’s the secret films you have to watch out for,” jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader ...

“People would glaze over and weren’t interested,” she says. “I’d say, ‘It’s about a boy growing up and a family’ and they’d say, ‘Oh, well, good luck with that.’” Sunday night, that little movie ...