The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Page #4

Synopsis: The manager of the negative assets sector of Life magazine, Walter Mitty, has been working for sixteen years for the magazine and has a tedious life, not going anywhere but from his home to his job and vice-versa. He is an escapist, daydreaming into a world of fantasy many times a day. Walter has a crush on the recently hired Cheryl Melhoff but he is too shy to invite her on a date and he is trying to contact her via online dating. The magazine is preparing to release its last printed edition and the loathsome manager of transition Ted Hendricks is preparing an inevitable downsizing over the next few days. Walter has been the liaison between the magazine and the mysterious independent photographer Sean O'Connell who has sent to him a package of negatives and a wallet as a gift for his work. Sean also suggests to the senior management the use of negative 25 for the cover of the last edition. However, Walter cannot find the negative that is missing. Walter has no means to contact Sean an
Director(s): Ben Stiller
Production: 20th Century Fox
  5 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
PG
Year:
2013
114 min
$33,223,430
Website
10,111 Views


this is good.

On move-in,

you'd need first month's,

last month's, and full deposit.

That's $4,700.

Great.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, we'll take it.

I'll get the paperwork.

The new villa comes

open in three weeks.

I'm guessing.

Happy birthday.

Stretch Armstrong!

That's cool.

Yeah. Isn't that awesome?

This was your favorite thing when

we were little. Do you remember?

You want to do it?

Yeah, all right.

Come on, Stretch!

Good, good!

Come on, we got to go.

A villa, okay, but hey, I'm

not the Queen of Sheba.

You got to have

room for your piano.

You can stay at my place

until it's ready.

I won't be cramping your scene?

My scene? No.

And sorry we couldn't

get you in here today.

Walter!

Look what I found!

This is from you

and Tim Linderman.

Do you remember, we were

gonna backpack Europe?

That June Dad died?

Man! What is in here?

That's my Walter box.

Some of my Walter

knick-knacks and keepsakes.

You made the best mix tapes!

Oh, man.

What? What's that?

Travel journal Dad gave me.

Oh.

You should donate that, because

you never used it, to a poor kid.

A poor kid who's

gonna travel to Europe?

Look at you and your dad!

Is that my tournament one?

He was so proud of this.

Sharing your accomplishments

with the whole world.

It's from the Fairview

Smalltowner, Mom.

Well, I really

liked that nifty mohawk.

You know, when your daddy died...

and then you went to work

in that pizza place...

the one that was named after a father,

had that father kind of name.

Papa John's.

Yeah, delivery.

And I thought perhaps that

it was really sad for you...

working in a restaurant

named after a father

after your father just died.

I never even thought about that.

Probably because

I didn't call Dad "Papa. "

You had a weird style.

That wasn't my style.

That was a uniform. KFC.

My worker bee.

"Word in the water"?

Okay, you know what?

I got to go.

We're getting you into

a villa situation, okay?

Okay.

Good, everybody?

My worker bee...

and my performance artist bee!

Thank you, Mom.

Hernando.

Hey.

I don't see anything.

Upper middle.

It's faint. There's a

word in the water.

I'm getting nervous, Walter.

Hey, this is an ocean.

That's a boat.

"Erkigsnek. "

He was near this boat.

See you in a few.

I'll check the mailroom.

Final cover.

Big responsibility.

Oh, is that my quintessence?

No.

We're prepping the wetting agents

on that to start the process.

Really? Because it looks like

you're playing with toys.

No, this is a gift.

Yeah, the negative needs to

go through a very technical...

I'm sorry. I can't have a

professional conversation with you.

You and your little blonde pal.

Let's...

You can't walk through

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