(CNN) — It's easy to understand why comedians like Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Sacha Baron Cohen have flirted with adapting James Thurber's 1939 New Yorker story about a timid man with a vibrant fantasy life. Not only has CGI made it relatively simple
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" — opening today (Dec. 25) — is a very short story by James Thurber, first published in 1939; basically it's a character sketch of a bullied husband who escapes his dull life (and nagging wife) by slipping into
Goldwyn Jr., whose father, the famed Samuel Goldwyn, produced The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Danny Kaye in 1947, has updated the classic 1939 short story by James Thurber. Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller, also the movie's director) is an unremarkable
This has been such an exceptional year in movies that calling a movie “perfectly likable” or even “good” starts to sound like faint praise. Which means that “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Ben Stiller's contemporary adaptation of the James Thurber
Spielberg was interested in directing Carrey in the film, but the conversation took a turn when Carrey brought up The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake of the 1947 movie that John Goldwyn's grandfather, Samuel Goldwyn, had produced. Samuel Goldwyn
Family Filmgoer reviews 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' and 'The Wolf of ...
