The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Ben Stiller
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NYFF51: Official Selection

September 27 - October 13, 2013

Centerpiece Gala Presentation! World Premiere!

Ben Stiller stars in and directs this sweet, globe-trotting (but New York-based) comic fable about an up-to-the-minute everyman, co-starring Kristen Wiig as the woman of his dreams, Sean Penn as a legendary photographer and Shirley MacLaine as Walter’s mother.

DIRECTOR
Ben Stiller
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
114 minutes
START DATE
October 5, 2013

Centerpiece Gala Presentation! World Premiere!

Special $25 tickets now available to the 9:00pm screening.

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is a dutiful son, a loyal friend, and a man who takes pride in his work as the photo editor of Life Magazine. He is also a compulsive fantasist who gets lost in heroic scenarios in which he saves the life of the co-worker he adores (Kristen Wiig) but who he can barely manage to speak to in reality. When the publication is bought out and a team of corporate hacks elects to go all digital, a legendary photographer (Sean Penn) entrusts Walter with the negative of an image he considers to be perfect for the final cover… that he loses. Walter embarks on a worldwide search for the photographer, which becomes a journey of self-discovery and a recovery of his buried dreams. From James Thurber’s extremely short 1939 story, Ben Stiller has created a sweet, globe-trotting (but New York-based) comic fable with an up-to-the-minute everyman. With Shirley MacLaine in a lovely performance as Walter’s mother. A 20th Century Fox release.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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