Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hector and the Search for Happiness
R | 19 September 2014 (USA)
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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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Karry

Best movie of this year hands down!

Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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PodBill

Just what I expected

Tobias Burrows

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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siderite

Simon Pegg was a brilliant choice for this movie and the whole film is almost perfect as reflected in my rating. Based on a book, the script is pretty bloody good and, while I am usually not a fan of touchy-feely wisdom-on-a-cup kind of things, I really enjoyed the movie.OK, sometimes it was a little bit too heavy handed and I believe that choosing an actor for the lead that didn't have Pegg's silly happy funny face could have doomed this film. As such, I wonder how have I not heard of this movie? Why is everyone talking about superheroes and no one about this film? Is it just because it is not an American film?I thought that the script juggled very well with the viewers expectations. Then there are Jean Reno's role, Rosamund Pike's - especially after Gone Girl, I know that this movie comes first, but the result of watching it now is quite unexpected - and, of course, Christopher Plummer - may he live forever. Quite small, but perfect in their value to the story.Bottom line: watch the film. It can't hurt and it can really help. Give it a try. It's not a new age hum and meditate thing, it's ... real? It feels so.

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rps-2

Well, it certainly is different! But I failed to understand what it's about or even why it was made. So a British shrink wants to get away from everything and travel around the world. "Around The World In 80 Days" was much better story! There are some interesting cinematic tricks here and there. It's interesting to see a few exotic places. But when "The End" comes on screen (and there is a tricky little surprise even there) you wonder about what you've just seen. Was it a comedy? A fantasy? An adventure? A love story? A travelogue? Or most likely, the work of some free spending film people who wanted to have a little fun. The travel budget must have been insane but for what purpose? Despite all this, I still give it a half decent rating because it was refreshing (if puzzling and unrealistic.) Let's just hope nobody involved in this very odd picture actually believed they were writing cinema history. Birth Of A Nation it ain't!

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Ole Sandbaek Joergensen

This is something new from Simon Pegg, don't get me wrong I loved his Cornetto trilogy and all the other weird films he is in, I also like him in Star Trek, actually I like more or less everything I have seen him in :)Hector is a normal, maybe a bit reluctant and strange in some ways, he and his girlfriend have their routines and it works for them, but at some point, something convinces Hector to do something else and that's where this story really starts.I don't think you can say this is groundbreaking, but it is fun and meaningful to see what he figures out, who he visits and how he is handling it all, it does give some food for thought about yourself and when you are happy and what makes the people around you happy etc.

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Destitute Dandy

Oh okay. Wow. Let's see.Hector is a white man child who literally can't tie his own tie. He's a psychiatrist, apparently one of those who graduated instead of being cured. He finds no point in what he is doing so he does what western people do when they get dangerously close to realising some frightening truths about themselves; he takes off to tour exotic places like The Orient, Africa, and his past.Wherever he goes, he is handed free stuff. People like him, talk to him, they offer him things instantly, freely, with total trust. Even those that initially don't like him, somehow end up making their own billionaire's business trip all about him. The world is truly his oyster - but fortunately he has this heart of gold. So he wears a funny hat and doodles horrifying aphorisms in his notebook about the essence of happiness.He's got endless credit so when he survives Africa against all odds he gets to sit in first class, suffering from no trauma whatsoever from having very nearly been shot in the face. I guess that's just the sort of nonsense that happens in scary places that are not homelandia. Whew! Aren't we lucky to be outta there and handed a glass of champagne.The only sane person in the movie is the Wise Old Girlfriend who dutifully serves the plot by pointing out with a laser pen just how far up his colon hector's head is currently at. Otherwise her life is completely void of problems and she is perfectly happy, because she's married with three kids.This makes Hector realise that happiness was there for him all the time, back home that is - because it's obviously not in living a life that has any sort of point, but sharing the meaninglessness of the upper middle class life with another lucky piece of garbage whose one problem in life is that she mothers a man child when she obviously SHOULD be mothering an actual child.The movie ends with Hector skyping Wise Oriental Man who tells him that he not only had the ingredients of happiness all the time, but that he has an obligation to it. Think about that when you feel terrible about what the world is like. You have an obligation to be happy with all of this. Just shhhh and have children. Remember that therapy is just how we express love in homelandia. I need a shower.

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