Ben Stiller · 2013 · global

Ben Stiller's 2013 film of the daydreamer who finally lives. Walter Mitty, a timid photo-archivist at Life magazine, chases a missing negative across the world, from New York to Greenland and Iceland and on to the high Himalayas, and discovers somewhere along the way that his real life has outgrown his fantasies.

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   New York

   Walter Mitty, a daydreaming photo-archivist at the dying Life magazine, sets out to track down a missing negative and the photographer who shot it.

2. 2
   Nuuk, Greenland

   Chasing a clue, he flies to Greenland and leaps from a helicopter into the freezing North Atlantic after the wrong boat.

3. 3
   Stykkisholmur, Iceland

   In Iceland he longboards down an empty highway toward an erupting volcano, his imagined life becoming at last his real one.

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   New York

   He misses the photographer as the volcano goes up, comes home dejected and is fired - and then works out from a piece of wrapping paper, and the curve of his mother's piano, where Sean has gone next.

5. 5
   The Hindu Kush

   The trail leads to a Himalayan ridge, where the photographer waits in the snow for a ghostly snow leopard to appear.

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   New York

   Detained at Los Angeles for arriving from Afghanistan, he gets home with the negative he never looks at - and finds that what he had been chasing was with him the whole time.