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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

★ 7.2 · 8,208 ratings on TMDB

Stop dreaming. Start living.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty poster★ 7.2

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

DirectorBen Stiller
CastAdam Scott, Adrian Martinez, Ben Stiller, Gunnar Helgason, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Wiig
GenresAdventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The emergence reading

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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