Richard Linklater & Boyhood's Houston

Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater spent twelve years shooting Boyhood, filming the same young actor and cast a few days at a time from 2002 to 2013 to watch a boy grow up in real time. Much of that childhood was filmed in Houston, and the finished movie became one of the most acclaimed American films of its decade — a quiet, sprawling love letter to Texas. This drive visits the real Houston places that appear on screen: the museum where a father takes his kids for a day out, the ballpark where a home run was caught on camera during a live game, the university where the mother goes back to school, and the elementary school in the film. Linklater is an Austin-based director who has always shot his home state honestly, and Boyhood turned everyday Houston into something luminous. Where a location is a working school or private property, we keep to public streets and simply point it out from the road.