The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama directed by and starring Ben Stiller as the title character, a timid, daydreaming negative assets manager at Life magazine who escapes his mundane existence through elaborate fantasies of heroism and adventure. When the final cover photograph for Life's last print issue — shot by legendary photojournalist Sean O'Connell, played by Sean Penn — goes missing, Walter must embark on a real adventure across Greenland, Iceland, and the Himalayas to track down both the photograph and the elusive photographer. Ben Stiller's direction transformed a story that could have been a simple comedy into a visually gorgeous meditation on the difference between imagining life and living it.

The Icelandic and Greenlandic landscapes, shot on location, were breathtaking, and Walter's skateboard descent down an Icelandic highway became the film's defining image of liberation. The film earned $188 million worldwide on a $90 million budget.