The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy • 1h 54m
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Adrian Martinez, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Gunnar Helgason, Terence Bernie Hines, Alex Anfanger, Gary Wilmes, Jon Daly, Gurdeep Singh, Paul Fitzgerald, Grace Rex, Amanda Naughton, Nolan Carley, Joey Slotnick, Marcus Antturi, Amy Stiller, Rosamund Gundmundsdottir, Stuart Cornfeld, Maariu Olsen, Makka Kleist, Þórhallur Sigurðsson, Ari Matthíasson, Hendrikus Schraven, Finni Johannsson, Eysteinn Gardarsson, José Alcántara, Rodrigo Espinosa, Seba Alón, Miguel Baez-Olavarria, Daniel Orellana, Antonio Molina, Martin Lagos, Andres Quezada, Valur Snaer Hilmarsson, Eythor Atli Hilmarsson, Birgir Jarl Runarsson, Kai Lennox, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Anthony Desio, Losang Thonden, Rinjee Sherpa, Haroon Nawabi, Stefan B. Onundarson, Mohammed Arif Baser, Mohammed Pancherri, Ehsan Nawroz, Steve Assil, Ang Babu Sherpa, Ang Gelu Sherpa, Dawa Sherpa, Ngima T. Sherpa, Nuri Chhiri Sherpa, Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Walter Mudu, Liz Mikel, Brian Scott McFadden, Dion Graham, Richard DeDomenico, Matt Levin, Craig 'Radio Man' Castaldo, George Aloi, Paul Bosche, Jerome Brooks Jr., Brady Bryson, Greg Cipes, Marmee Regine Cosico, Jay Ferraro, Gary Ferster, Samantha Gelnaw, Efraiem Hanna, Rosemary Howard, Ilan Krigsfeld, Alex Kruz, Anna Kuchma, Dennis Lauricella, Raymond Mamrak, Jennifer Leigh Mann, Ryan McBride, Ryan Nicolls, Hal Panchansky, Roy Pollack, Wes Pope, Lil Rhee, Bennie Road, Shade Rupe, Stephen Sapienza, Chloe Elaine Scharf, Joshua Schubart, Tara Strong, Rob Tode, Marco Torriani, Barbara Vincent, Hynden Walch, Kelsey Wang, Christopher Watts, William Henderson White, Nicole Neuman, Dennis Rees
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About the film
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Director: Ben Stiller
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ben Stiller
Note: only the theatrical in 4k, Director's Cut has not been upgraded
Director: Mike Judge
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: David Fincher
Digipack release includes an Amazing Amy book the standard edition doesn’t have.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: David Butler
Video format: Only Unofficial Sources
Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:
This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel
Director: James Cameron
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling
Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling
An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
More Adventure on Blu-ray
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Dennis Hopper
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: John Huston
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better
All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
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