Walter Mitty
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Dec 25, 2013 · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Let me be frank: to use the words of the august founder of this website, I hated, hated, hated this movie. From Ben Stiller's pantomimes of romantic hesitation in its opening moments as Walter Mitty goes all J. Alfred Prufrock on eHarmony.com, to costar Adam Scott's fussily styled fake beard, to the overall ...
Dec 25, 2013 · 52% Tomatometer 199 Reviews. 71% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), an employee at Life magazine, spends day after monotonous day developing photos for the publication. To ...
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Extraordinary Movie Secret life of walter mitty. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a captivating and visually stunning film that takes viewers on a transformative adventure. Ben Stiller's direction and performance as the titular character are truly commendable. The story follows Walter Mitty, a daydreamer who embarks on a real-life ...
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By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Dec 23, 2013 7:11 pm
Existing somewhere between the saccharine and the sublime, director-star Ben Stiller's retelling of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an earnest, but not entirely effective fable about escaping the doldrums of daily life and seizing change. Very loosely based on the 1939 short story by James Thurber (which was previously produced for the screen in 1947 starring Danny Kaye), Stiller's adaptation depicts the title character as a nice, but forgettable man leading a humdrum, routine life.
Walter's elaborate daydreams involve fantasies of himself as an action hero or a romantic explorer. But in reality he's a meek man with a life so dull that a relentlessly helpful eHarmony call center rep (voiced by Patton Oswalt) tries to help him beef up his online profile so he can get some views. Walter really just hopes to catch the attention of Cheryl (Kristen Wiig), a co-worker who is also on eHarmony.
Walter's antiquated profession involves handling and cataloguing photo negatives for LIFE magazine. The digital age has finally caught up with the venerable publication (13 years into the 21st century, mind you), whose new owners (led by a bearded Adam Scott and his likewise bearded minions) are scuttling the print edition and moving the entire operation online. Layoffs are imminent.
Walter is tasked with providing his new bosses with the photo that will grace LIFE's final print edition, a shot taken by legendary photojournalist Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn in an extended cameo) who still shoots on film. But here's the problem: the negative of the photo in question is missing and the meek Walter, fearful for his job, decides he'll have to track down O'Connell in Greenland to get the photo or at least some answers (since O'Connell doesn't have a cell phone and is usually on the road). The ensuing journey will see Walter start to live out some of the very adventures he's so far only fantasized about.
Ben Stiller directs and stars in the heartfelt, but superficial fantasy-dramedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which wants to say big things about life but never fully delivers on all its promise.
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/09/24 Full Review joel h If you're already a fan of Danny Kaye, you'll enjoy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. This movie is basically a playground ...
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Ben Stiller is mild-mannered Walter Mitty, based on James Thurber's 1939 short story, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", about a man who had a very vivid fantasy life. In this movie he is turning 42 as a new manager comes in to see that the operation of publishing LIFE magazine gets shut down orderly and people are fired.
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Full Review | Sep 23, 2022. Less about Walter Mitty’s secret life than his actual, perfectly romantic, impossibly realized adventures, the film loses itself in a fantasy world all its own and ...
