--- title: Boyhood Honest Trailer: Oscar Best Picture Nominee Gets New Trailer description: "Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo" canonical: https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-10T22:35:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:36.501Z og:title: This Honest 'Boyhood' Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie og:description: "Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo" og:url: https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=810&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 810 og:image:height: 456 og:image:alt: Golden Globes 2015 - Boyhood og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Honest 'Boyhood' Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie twitter:description: "Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=810&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Honest _Boyhood_ Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie > Sponsored content. 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Coltrane stars as Mason in the film Boyhood and the nearly-20-year-old actor was cast in the part when he was only six._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 10, 2015 10:35 PM UTC  Ellar Coltrane as Mason Evans Jr. in Boyhood Ellar Coltrane as Mason Evans Jr. in Boyhood IFC Films by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 10, 2015 10:35 PM UTC The jokesters who recently brought us “honest trailers” for[_Gone Girl_](http://time.com/3666032/gone-girl-movie-honest-trailer/)and [_Love Actually_](http://time.com/3611672/love-actually-honest-trailer/) are back, and this time they’ve tackled Oscars frontrunner _Boyhood_. As these jokesters — known as [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A) — explain, in 2002 director Richard Linklater thought up “the most ambitious gimmick in movie history” that required a six-year-old kid to “film the 12 most awkward years of his life.” According to this trailer, that premise ultimately leads to watching a group of actors grow together for more than a decade — like the _Harry Potter_ franchise, but without a plot, or magic or fun. The funniest part of this trailer, though, is the new version of the song “Hero” that was featured in [the original trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-mbHXyWX4). It’s got new lyrics like: “Watch him grow / from a cute kid to an emo. / He just kind of walks around / and never really does anything else.” No matter how much you loved the film — which even this trailer admits is “beautiful” — you have to laugh at this at least a little. _Read next:_[ _Richard Linklater’s_ ](http://time.com/2970210/boyhood-movie-review/)[Boyhood _Is a Thrilling Epic of Ordinary Life_](http://time.com/2970210/boyhood-movie-review/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"This Honest Boyhood Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie","datePublished":"2015-02-10T22:35:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:36.501Z","description":"\"Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo\"","url":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Golden Globes 2015 - Boyhood","caption":"Golden Globes 2015 - Boyhood","creditText":"IFC Films","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","name":"This Honest Boyhood Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Boyhood' Shows Actor Ellar Coltrane Growing Up in Real Life","description":"There are method actors, and then there’s Ellar Coltrane. 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