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Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost. - Hector and the Search for Happiness
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Title: Hector and the Search for Happiness

Release Date: 14 Aug 2014

Runtime: 1h 54m

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy

Director: Screen Siren Pictures, Egoli Tossell Film, Relativity Media, Bankside Films, Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Head Gear Films, Star Gate Films, Metrol Technology, Film House Germany, Wild Bunch Germany, Construction Film, ARD Degeto, Téléfilm Canada, Film Afrika, China Blue Productions, Outlaw Films

Production Companies: Screen Siren Pictures, Egoli Tossell Film, Relativity Media, Bankside Films, Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Head Gear Films, Star Gate Films, Metrol Technology, Film House Germany, Wild Bunch Germany, Construction Film, ARD Degeto, Téléfilm Canada, Film Afrika, China Blue Productions, Outlaw Films

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (872 votes)

Cast

  • Hector: Simon Pegg
  • Clara: Rosamund Pike
  • Agnes: Toni Collette
  • Edward: Stellan Skarsgård
  • Professor Coreman: Christopher Plummer
  • Diego Baresco: Jean Reno
  • Michael: Barry Atsma
  • Anjali: Veronica Ferres
  • Ying Li: Ming Zhao
  • Pathetic Jane: Tracy-Ann Oberman
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