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Hector and the Search for Happiness(2014)
Status: Released
Date: 2014-08-14
67%
930 Votes
Time: 1h 54m
Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.
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.
Languages: German, English, French.
Countries:
Canada,
China,
Germany,
South Africa,
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Revenue: $1,124,445.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Screen Siren Pictures
Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG
Star Gate Films
Film House Germany
Construction Film
China Blue Productions
Outlaw Films
Movie: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Top 10 Billed Cast
Simon Pegg
Hector
Rosamund Pike
Clara
Toni Collette
Agnes
Stellan Skarsgård
Edward
Christopher Plummer
Professor Coreman
Jean Reno
Diego Baresco
Barry Atsma
Michael
Veronica Ferres
Anjali
Ming Zhao
Ying Li
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Pathetic Jane
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