“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” distributed by 20th Century Fox, is well made and intelligent. But is that enough to make it a must-see for awards-voters amid a flood of late-year entries ...

Sometimes daydreams do come true. At least, that’s what the Goldwyn family must be feeling now that their long-delayed “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” update finally exists, smarter and ...

In Ben Stiller's well-intentioned but insipid re-invention of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (** out of four; rated PG; opens Wednesday nationwide), he's a shy daydreamer who goes from zero to ...

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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," directed by Ben Stiller and based on the short story by James Thurber, is all inspiration, all of the time. It’s a movie that wears its desire to move the ...

in that it features fewer daydreams — this Walter Mitty begins to have his own real-life adventures. Nor is it a straight-up comedy, making it a more risky bet for Fox and the filmmakers ...

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” distributed by 20th Century Fox, is well made and intelligent. But is that enough to make it a must-see for awards-voters amid a flood of late-year entries ...

The gradual shift by which lonely Walter’s fantasies recede as his real life becomes more dynamic is modulated with disarming gentleness. More or less playing straight man, Wiig gives a quiet ...

I first encountered James Thurber’s well-known short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” in an English class during my sophomore year at Stanford. Given the creative writing program’s ...