Hector and the Search for Happiness R

Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 3, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2014
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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Rating: 3/5 -- Hector and The Search for Happiness wors because it's basically a "self-help" movie. [full review in Spanish] Full Review
Sensacine
Jun 4, 2015
Hector may indeed learn that narcissism stands in the way of happiness, but he also walks away with his privileges intact and unchallenged. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2014
Rating: 2/4 -- Potential peeps out occasionally in Hector and the Search for Happiness, but then flounders and gets lost in a bland sea of sentimentality and cultural myopia. Full Review
USA Today
Oct 2, 2014
Rating: 6/10 -- In the end happiness, it seems, is above all in the journey... [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
Cinexcepción
Dec 12, 2017
Rating: 1/5 -- Doesn't seem to be in possession of any form of moral compass, and all traces of humanity have been sucked dry by a need to be whimsy for whimsy's sake. Full Review
CineVue
Aug 13, 2018
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [W]ith his character here, Pegg has created someone much more nuanced and layered that anything we’ve seen from him previously.
Chicago Sun-Times
Sep 25, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- Hector and The Search for Happiness is a feel good movie that avoids feeling preachy at all times. [full review in Spanish] Full Review
Cine Premiere
Jun 4, 2015

Product Description:

Eccentric psychiatrist Hector (Simon Pegg) decides travel the world on a mission to find out what makes people happy after growing convinced that his stagnant, routine-obsessed existence is preventing him from truly helping his patients in this whimsical, soul-searching comedy-drama. Hector is an esteemed psychiatrist whose relationship with his career-driven girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike) is one of complete predictability. For a while this arrangement offers Hector a reassuring sense of comfort and security, though in time he begins to realize that he might not be getting the most out of life, and begins to question what it is that makes people genuinely happy. When Hector's increasing irritability begins to threaten his relationships with his patients, he decides to take a sabbatical, and get out of his comfort zone. In doing so, surmises Hector, he can gain greater insight into his own needs as well as the needs of his patients. Discomforted by his decision yet supportive of his yearning for greater life experience, Clara wishes Hector well as she sends him on the first leg of his globe-trotting adventure. And what an adventure it is; from his initial stop in Shanghai, where a wealthy financier (Stellan Skarsgård) showers him with the spoils of affluence, to his visit with Tibetan monks, his turbulent trip through Africa, and attempt to find closure to a past romance in L.A., Hector gradually discovers the answer to his existential questions, and so much more. Toni Collette, Jean Reno, and Christopher Plummer co-star.

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  • UPC: 024543993568
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