With employees dropping like flies and a moot crush on his co-worker, Cheryl, it’s the icing on the cake when the final negative for the last issue of the magazine, sent by legendary photographer Sean O’Connell, goes missing. His struggle with the monotonous routine of processing negative images for the magazine in the dark depths of the basement is thrown into chaos when an arrogant alpha male, Ted Hendricks, bursts onto the scene and announces that Life magazine is going to be letting employees go and transitioning to the digital age - all the content being produced will only appear online. Watching the day-to-day life of Life magazine employee Walter Mitty unfold onscreen at first does not seem so interesting.

This mundane opening scene, however, proves to be a false representation of the rest of the film as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” tosses ordinary out the window and swaps it for a thought-provoking tale of adventure, danger, and self-discovery. An ordinary man sitting in an ordinary kitchen partaking in the ordinary task of balancing a checkbook, the usual. At first glance, nothing appears special.

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