The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 romantic comedydrama adventure fantasy film written by Steve Conrad and directed, produced with Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., John Goldwyn and Stuart Cornfeld and starring Ben Stiller. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Adrian Martinez, lafur Darri lafsson and Sean Penn. Gore Verbinski served as executive producer.

Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine who daydreams of adventures and has a crush on a coworker named Cheryl. Mitty works with photojournalist Sean OConnell, whose images are highly regarded. OConnell has sent Mitty his latest negatives and a wallet as a gift in appreciation of Mittys work. OConnell believes negativecaptures the quintessence of Life and that it should be used for the cover of the magazines final print issue as it converts to online status. The negative is missing, however, and Walter is forced to stall for time with corporate transition manager Ted Hendricks, who is handling the downsizing. While viewing the other negatives outside Lifes offices, Cheryl approaches Mitty and suggests that he think of the negatives as clues to Seans location. They look at three of them, including one of a persons thumb with a unique ring on it, and another of a curved piece of wood. A third picture of a boat leads Mitty to determine that OConnell is in Greenland. Mitty promptly flies there to find him.A bartender in Greenland explains that OConnell left on a ship. To find him, Mitty would need to go on the postal helicopter, and the pilot is drunk. Mitty recognizes the pilots thumb with the unique ring and realizes he is on the right track. He at first declines to fly with the intoxicated pilot, but imagines Cheryl singing Space Oddity, gains a new confidence and boards the helicopter. Nearing the ship, Mitty learns the helicopter cannot land upon it. Misunderstanding the pilot, instead of jumping into a dinghy boat nearing to catch him, Mitty aims for the main vessel and misses and falls in the ocean. He splashes down into icecold, sharkinfested waters, losing a box of shiptoshore radio components before being brought aboard. ........

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