The 15 Best Slice-of-Life Movies Where Nothing Really Happens
15. Boyhood (2014) Boyhoodis literally a slice-of-life movie, as it was filmed across 12 years and captured the cast growing up in real-time. There wasn’t really a script—more like a few guiding plot points that were organically developed with the actors. InBoyhood, Ellar Coltrane plays the boy in question. Named Mason, we meet him at age six and follow him through childhood and into his college days. He lives a fairly standard life that’s filled with the usual trials, like divorced parents and awkward teen years....