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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

R 114 minutes EN Adventure , Drama , Comedy

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

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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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

Chad Willett

Alan

Togo Igawa

Old Monk

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Dan Mangan

Original Music Composer

Jesse Zubot

Original Music Composer

Kolja Brandt

Director of Photography

Claus Wehlisch

Editor

Michael Diner

Production Design

Deborah Aquila

Casting

Judy Lee

Casting

Tricia Wood

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Production companies: Screen Siren Pictures, Egoli Tossell Film, Relativity Media, Bankside Films, Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Head Gear Films, Star Gate Films, Metrol Technology, Film House Germany, Wild Bunch Germany, Construction Film, ARD Degeto, Téléfilm Canada, Film Afrika, China Blue Productions, Outlaw Films

Production countries: Canada, China, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America

Revenue: $1,124,445

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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