The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013) 8/10

Starring : Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Sean Penn
Director : Ben Stiller
Running Time : 115 mins

When his job as a negative assets manager at Life magazine is brought under threat due to a once-in-sixteen years error that sees him losing an important photo negative, daydreamer Walter Mitty (Stiller) decides to leave his boring life behind and go on a round the world journey to find the photographer Sean O’Connell (Penn) and try to get a copy of the negative back.

Very loosely based on the short story by James Thurber, this updated adaptation probably has more in comparison with the 1947 movie of the same name than with the source material. Stiller tries his best to be likeable, which is only really achieved because Adam Scott manages to be so unlikeable, and the situations that Mitty gets himself into are so outlandish that they should keep the movie entertaining, but I actually found that the best moments were the scenes set firmly in reality where characters are simply talking amongst themselves and subtly telling us what kind of person they really are.

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