A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
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Peter Chelsom
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Title: Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Simon Pegg | ... | Hector | |
| Rosamund Pike | ... | Clara | |
| Tracy Ann Oberman | ... | Pathetic Jane | |
| Jean Reno | ... | Diego Baresco | |
| Veronica Ferres | ... | Anjali | |
| Barry Atsma | ... | Michael | |
| Ming Zhao | ... | Ying Li | |
| Togo Igawa | ... | Old Monk | |
| Christopher Plummer | ... | Professor Coreman | |
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Bruce Fontaine | ... | Malcolm |
| Chad Willett | ... | Alan | |
| Bernard Cuffling | ... | Professor Niedorf | |
| Jakob Davies | ... | Young Hector | |
| Chris Gauthier | ... | Roger | |
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Dean Paul Gibson | ... | Joyless Husband |
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A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
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Release Date:
14 August 2014 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Hector e a Procura da Felicidade See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$40,847, 21 September 2014Gross USA:
$1,124,445Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$5,952,549Company Credits
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Hector: [waking suddenly from a nightmare] Clara!
Clara: Hector... Morning, sweetheart. Time to raise and shine.
Hector: [narrating] One upon a time, there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who had a very satisfactory life. His world was tidy, uncomplicated. And he liked it that way. He took great comfort in its predictable patterns. Patterns his girl friend Clara was happy to maintain.
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United Star Trek actors Simon Pegg (Scotty in Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016)) and Christopher Plummer (Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)). See more »Goofs
Hector is in a metal booth presumably designed to stop electronic signals interfering with the brain scanner, but he takes a call on a mobile phone, which also is a powerful transmitter and would mess up the brain scanner. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Hector: [waking suddenly from a nightmare] Clara!
Clara: Hector... Morning, sweetheart. Time to raise and shine.
Hector: [narrating] One upon a time, there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who had a very satisfactory life. His world was tidy, uncomplicated. And he liked it that way. He took great comfort in its predictable patterns. Patterns his girl friend Clara was happy to maintain.
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I'd decided on the title for this review before I learnt that the source material was a French novel. That explains a great deal. Hector and the... is a deeply felt, funny, moving, insightful and whimsical look at how we (fail to) make the best of life. The film makes its points adroitly, avoiding (sometimes barely but a miss is as good as a mile)maudlin sentimentality. It's liberally sprinkled with perfect one-liners, acute observations and star cameos but the glue that holds the whole thing together is the relationship between Hector and his girlfriend. It's heartrendingly real. The version that I watched was a full ten minutes shorter than the original runtime and I'd guess that the few dots that failed to join up as needed were a result of that USA audience edit. Another guess would lead me to give the full length cut an eight rather than a seven. Here's the deal. It's a feel-good movie for which you won't need a supply of sick bags. By the end, I felt... happier. Really!