Walter Mitty is a negative asset manager at Life Magazine, meaning he is responsible for archiving all of the photo negatives from every image ever used or submitted. When Life decides to shut down their print magazine and only publish online, a team is brought in to determine who stays and who gets let go. Walter is somewhat of a dreamer and frequently sees himself living out the lives of people in the photos he sees. When a negative that is to be used in the cover of the last printed magazine goes missing, he determines to venture out into the wild world of reality to find the photographer who may still have the elusive negative.

While the film is imaginative and carries many positive themes such as friendship, loyalty and putting the benefit of others above his one’s own desires and fears, the movie does tend to drag on a little from time to time. Unfortunately, there is a single misuse of the name of Jesus in the movie which prevents us from considering this a family film.