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Sep 19, 2014 · Peter Chelsom's "Hector and the Search for Happiness" (based on the book by François Lelord, a psychiatrist in real-life, just like the eponymous Hector) treats happiness as an easily-digestible cross-stitched homily, the kind hung as harmless decorations in people's living rooms.
38% Tomatometer 88 Reviews 61% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Disillusioned with the tedium of his existence, psychiatrist Hector (Simon Pegg) confesses to his girlfriend (Rosamund Pike) that...
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Unlike many of his films that opened to big fanfare and ticket sales, "Hector and the Search for Happiness" came and went--mostly because it's just not a very good film. Hector is a psychiatrist with a nice, ordered life.
In look and feel, Hector and the Search for Happiness is a cross between The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Eat Pray Love and is only marginally better than those films. Full Review |...
Aug 14, 2014 · Hector and the Search for Happiness: Directed by Peter Chelsom. With Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jean Reno. A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
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Aug 14, 2014 · Hector and the Search for Happiness review – Simon Pegg stars a smug psychiatrist in mid-life crisis. A naggingly credulous adaptation of François Lelord's philosophically minded...
Sep 18, 2014 · Directed by Peter Chelsom. 1 hour 54 minutes. Fashioned as a sort of fairy tale, “Hector and the Search for Happiness,” based on a novel by the psychiatrist François Lelord, centers on a...
