‘Boyhood’ was filmed over 12 years

IT’S the movie everyone’s talking about. Boyhood was filmed over 12 years using the same actors. Check out the incredible trailer.

PEOPLE enjoy movies because they often reinforce the events of our own lives, but Richard Linklater’s ambitious new film, Boyhood, takes that notion to an unprecedented place.

The first trailer is here, offering poignant glimpses of the boy in question growing up before our eyes.

Linklater began filming seven-year-old Ellar Coltrane in 2002, and he did so in small chunks for 12 consecutive years, chronicling a fictional coming-of-age in real time.

Boyhood marks another collaboration with Ethan Hawke, who plays the boy’s father and called the project “Tolstoy-esque in scope.” Patricia Arquette plays the mother.

The movie was one of the Sundance Film Festival’s biggest hits and Linklater took home the Berlin Film Festival’s achievement award for directing.

The trailer makes the film look like a guaranteed weeper, or at least like something you’ll want to watch with your childhood blanky by your side.

This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post.