The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

2013 114 min ★ 7.2 Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

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Cast

Ben Stiller

Walter Mitty

Kristen Wiig

Cheryl Melhoff

Sean Penn

Sean O'Connell

Shirley MacLaine

Edna Mitty

Adam Scott

Ted Hendricks

Kathryn Hahn

Odessa Mitty

Patton Oswalt

Todd Maher

Adrian Martinez

Hernando

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Helicopter Pilot

Gunnar Helgason

Hotel Keeper

Details

Director

Ben Stiller

Screenplay

Steven Conrad

Tagline

"Stop dreaming. Start living."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$90,000,000

Revenue

$188,133,322

Production

Samuel Goldwyn Films, Red Hour, New Line Cinema, Big Screen Productions, Down Productions, Ingenious Media, 20th Century Fox, TSG Entertainment

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

January 14, 2014

★ 7/10

The story is too simple but enjoyable and the photography is gorgeous. Best thing is seeing Shirley MacLaine and Kristen Wiig and Adrian Martinez performances.

C

cactuz911

January 24, 2014

★ 4/10

Boring, boring, boring...

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Erin Taylor

June 4, 2015

★ 8/10

A truly underrated movie in my opinion. Excellent story, beautiful cinematography, and an inspirational message that somehow got overlooked. Life is meant to be lived, to be experienced... not day dreamed about, or fantasized in our heads! Get up, get out there, and get living!! I enjoyed this movie, as well as Ben Stiller's performance.

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Crazypiglady

January 7, 2023

★ 7/10

This surprised me in that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Of course it was foolish of me to doubt Ben Stiller’s magic both as actor and director. Given the imagination of Mitty’s mundane character, some sequences in the film are surprisingly high octane action movie. I had expected Mitty to be less likeable and more mundane than he actually was but given the action that he eventually re...