Hector and the Search for Happiness
- Release Date
- August 14, 2014
- Director
- Peter Chelsom
- Cast
- Simon Pegg , Jordan Schartner , Rosamund Pike , Tracy-Ann Oberman , Veronica Ferres , Jakob Davies
- Runtime
- 114
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- Relativity Media
- Writers
- Maria von Heland , Peter Chelsom , Tinker Lindsay , François Lelord
- Tagline
- Everyone wants to find it.
Summary
Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), 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. Based on the world-wide best-selling novel of the same name, Hector and the Search for Happiness is a rich, exhilarating, and hilarious tale from director Peter Chelsom, starring Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno and Christopher Plummer. "We should concern ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of the pursuit.”Professor Coreman (Christopher Plummer).
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