Episode 085: Stranger Than Fiction & The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Mid-life crisis stories are often dramas that keep both feet on the ground, but tonight MG looks at a couple of films that use comedic fantasy to break their heros free from their humdrum lives! First up, Ben Stiller is all but forced to live out his adventurous daydreams when he must track down Sean Penn in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, followed by Will Farrel in Stranger Than Fiction, in which a dronelike accountant discovers that he's actually a character doomed to die in a novel being written by Emma Thomson!