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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) is streaming on Amazon Prime. Also available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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.
A whimsical sense of curiosity infects this globe-trotting odyssey through the unpredictable mechanics of human joy. This gentle comedy trades clinical detachment for a vibrant, heartfelt quest to find meaning beyond a therapist's couch.
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Director
Peter Chelsom
Cast
Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Jean Reno, Barry Atsma, Veronica Ferres, Ming Zhao, Tracy-Ann Oberman
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
You can watch Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Peter Chelsom
Cast
Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Jean Reno, Barry Atsma, Veronica Ferres, Ming Zhao, Tracy-Ann Oberman
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