Film2014114 min

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Name: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2014
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer

Taste attributes: adventurecomedydramavehiclesfastlightimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questcomplex relationship

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"Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost."

Boxlist takeAn expansive comedy-drama that is light, pacy and stylish. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very light · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

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Synopsis

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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