The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
***
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Adrian Martinez, Sean Penn
Walter Mitty is a mousy single man who works at Life magazine, which is about to go fully digital. When he cannot locate the negative to the final cover picture, Walter goes on an adventure the like of which he hasn't even imagined in his regular daydreams. Steve Conrad's screenplay is loosely based on James Thurber's 1939 short story. Walter's narrative journey is a bit of a shaggy dog story, to be honest. It is predictably uplifting and inspirational, but also a rather funny and entertaining one. The scenes shot in Greenland and Iceland look terrific.
