The colors are saturated, the edges are crisp. See this film for the cinematography, which frames nearly every shot like a perfectly composed photograph of the likes you'd see in, say, Life magazine, where Walter works in the movie. Walter will have to leave his nest to find Sean, or risk the wrath of Ted Hendricks ( Adam Scott), who's managing the magazine's transition online and deciding who stays and who goes. But Walter's carefully choreographed and simple life gets complicated quickly when Sean sends a negative to be published for Life's final cover, and it goes missing. He's even friendly with the customer service rep ( Patton Oswalt) at the dating site he just joined, but hasn't really taken advantage of. He's a devoted son to a mother ( Shirley MacLaine) who's keenly observant of his life a good brother to his underemployed actress-sister, Odessa ( Kathryn Hahn), and a sweet colleague to Cheryl, a woman he has a crush on ( Kristen Wiig) but can't seem to approach. But that's as close to adventure as Walter gets. The biggest talent to endorse Walter's skills is Sean O'Connell ( Sean Penn), a globe-trotting, adventure-seeking, and often unreachable photographer. Walter Mitty ( Ben Stiller), is the negative asset manager at Life magazine, which means he handles the negatives that arrive from the publication's best shutterbugs and makes sure they're done justice when they're processed and printed.
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