The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Ben Stiller |
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| Screenplay by | Steve Conrad |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber |
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| Music by | Theodore Shapiro featuring Jose Gonzalez |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Edited by | Greg Hayden |
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114 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $188.5 million |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama 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, and Sean Penn. Gore Verbinski served as executive producer.
This is the second film adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story of the same name. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 5, 2013.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was theatrically released by 20th Century Fox, Samuel Goldwyn Films and New Line Cinema on December 25, 2013 in North America and December 26, 2013 in Australia & United Kingdom, to generally mixed reception, and was a moderate box office success. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 15, 2014 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
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 O'Connell, whose images are highly regarded. O'Connell has sent Mitty his latest negatives and a wallet as a gift in appreciation of Mitty's work. O'Connell believes negative #25 captures the "" of Life and that it should be used for the cover of the magazine's 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 Life's offices, Cheryl approaches Mitty and suggests that he think of the negatives as clues to Sean's location. They look at three of them, including one of a person's 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 O'Connell is in Greenland. Mitty promptly flies there to find him.
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