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Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2014)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The upside to online magazines is that there will be free tablets with old issues on them at the dentist's office.
Alternatively, the downside to this digitization is explored in this comedy-fantasy.
With the final issue of LIFE magazine ready to publish, it's up to negative handler Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) to present the last cover photo shot by famed photojournalist Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn).
The only problem is the negative has disappeared.
Now it's up to the daydreaming office drone to place the misplaced image before the issue goes to print.
To do this, he must travel to Iceland to find O'Connell.
While Walter's trajectory from skateboarding punk to milquetoast adult is incongruent, it is this film's sappy ending that gives the James Thurber's short story a bad name.
Furthermore, with Life magazine now out of the way, there's less confusion between Life cereal and Life the board game.
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