The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

HBO starting showing "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and I thought it worth a viewing this Sunday. Ben Stiller plays a negative asset manager, which means he handles photo negatives for LIFE magazine, which is a bit of a lost art. LIFE magazine is going to cease being a magazine and start being an internet magazine. Walter has worked with a certain photographer (Sean Penn) for 18 years and handled hundreds of his photos and millions of other negatives. Walter is trying to win the affection of Kirsten Wiig, who works in photograph accounts. He realizes his life is rather boring when setting up an online profile for eHarmony. Sean Penn delivers his last negatives, but #25 is missing, which he has deemed his "best work" and a reflection on the human condition, etc. He gave Walter a wallet with LIFE magazines motto on it in the package, but nobody can find the treasured negative. Walter goes on a search for Penn, who is a reclusive TRUE ARTIST (AKA hippy vagrant weirdo) who doesn't carry a phone, etc. He tracks him based on some of the other negatives to Greenland, begins having adventures, and follows him to Iceland. He keeps working on finding Penn to find the only missing negative that's ever happened during his tenure. There's the plot of his relationship with Wiig, Patton Oswalt as the eHarmony employee trying to help finalize Walter's profile, and his mother moving into an adult living facility while moving her piano in, that was the first wedding gift from her late husband (their late father). These things all move together as Walter has amazing life experiences while tracking down Penn. It's a "slice of life" tale that combines love, some adventurous moments, and the uplifting tale of Walter growing as a person. Bottom Line: 7.2 out of 10. I was a sucker for something sentimental on Sunday before football, so keep that in mind, but it was a "nice" movie that's kind of funny, has some interesting parts, and features Stiller & Wiig, who are VERY likable actors.