The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
– A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life a..
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
25 Dec 2013
English, Spanish, Icelandic
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Ben Stiller
Steve Conrad (screenplay by), Steve Conrad (screen story by), James Thurber (based on the short story by)
Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Kathryn Hahn
The manager of the negative assets sector of Life magazine, Walter Mitty, has been working for sixteen years for the magazine and has a tedious life, not going anywhere but from his home to his job and vice-versa. He is an escapist, daydreaming into a world of fantasy many times a day. Walter has a crush on the recently hired Cheryl Melhoff but he is too shy to invite her on a date and he is trying to contact her via online dating. The magazine is preparing to release its last printed edition and the loathsome manager of transition Ted Hendricks is preparing an inevitable downsizing over the next few days. Walter has been the liaison between the magazine and the mysterious independent photographer Sean O'Connell who has sent to him a package of negatives and a wallet as a gift for his work. Sean also suggests to the senior management the use of negative 25 for the cover of the last edition. However, Walter cannot find the negative that is missing. Walter has no means to contact Sean and finds a clue that he might be in Greenland. He decides to travel to Greenland to track Sean down in the beginning of an unbelievable adventure.
5 wins & 18 nominations.
$33,223,430
20th Century Fox