Synopsis
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 StillerWalter Mitty
- Kristen WiigCheryl Melhoff
- Sean PennSean O'Connell
- Shirley MacLaineEdna Mitty
- Adam ScottTed Hendricks
- Kathryn HahnOdessa Mitty
- Patton OswaltTodd Maher
- Adrian MartinezHernando
- Ólafur Darri ÓlafssonHelicopter Pilot
- Gunnar HelgasonHotel Keeper
Recommendations
- 60
Variety
Rather than channeling James Thurber’s satirical tone, Stiller plays it mostly earnest, spinning what feels like a feature-length “Just Do It” ad. - 60
Time Out London
Cloying at times – but always good-natured. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Audiences willing to tune in to its blend of surreal fantasy, droll comedy and poignancy will be rewarded. - 50
IndieWire
Shows none of the edgy storytelling looniness present in Stiller's finest work. Instead, every element seems calculated to service an easygoing commercial product that plays up the sentimentality of the scenario while rendering it inoffensively bland. - 50
The New Yorker
The result may be the oddest film of the season. It boasts an array of sublime backdrops and a yearning score, but the climate of feeling is anxious and inward, encapsulated in Stiller’s darting gaze, and the movie itself keeps glancing backward, at the lost and the obsolete. - 50
Austin Chronicle
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a very pretty production – pretty colors, pretty scenery, pretty bromides – and a busy one, too, which helps distract us from the sad fact that the movie is generous and humane but not all that interesting. - 48
Film.com
Palpably well-intentioned, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is nevertheless phony to the core. - 42
The Playlist
Part escapist action-adventure, part would-be exhilarating quest of self-discovery, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty isn’t so much a mess because it wants to be everything at once, but because it employs hackneyed and mawkish methods to achieve a false sense of joyfulness.
