Hector and the Search for Happiness

Synopsis: A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director(s): Peter Chelsom

Actors: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy Ann Oberman, Jean Reno

Production: Relativity Media

2 wins & 6 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.0
Metacritic:: 29
Rotten Tomatoes:: 38%

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: R
Year:: 2014
: 114 min
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
(AIRPLANE HUMMING)
(DRUMBEATS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SLAPPING HAND, PANTING)
Clara!
Hector.
- Morning, sweetheart.
- Morning.
Time to rise, time to shine.
HECTOR:
Mm.
NARRATOR:
Once upon a time,
there was a young psychiatrist
called Hector,
who had a very satisfactory life.
His world was tidy,
uncomplicated...
And he liked it that way.
(SLUSHING)
He took great comfort
in its predictable patterns.
Patterns his girlfriend Clara
was happy to maintain.
Thank you.
Bye.
Oh!
NARRATOR:
Any lapse
was swiftly rectified.
(WINGS FLAPPING)
(BELLS TOLLING)
Hector had a great deal
of patience
for his patients,
if you see what I mean.
Every day, I ask myself,
"How could my marriage
just explode the way it did?"
NARRATOR:
And like
all the best psychiatrists,
he knew how to answer
a question with a question.
Jane, what does exploding
mean to you?
ANJALI:
It's no good.
I have lost my psychic mojo.
Oh, I just can't see
a way out.
All my clients will leave me.
Hector, look at me,
I want the truth.
Do you see my light?
Here.
Please, don't lie to me.
I see your point.
(DOOR BUZZER HUMMING)
NARRATOR:
His patients never
crossed paths with each other.
They couldn't.
Once in a while,
Hector prescribed pills
with funny sounding names.
Roger, have you taken your meds?
I am fucking Ferrari.
What?
NARRATOR:
Experimenting
until he landed upon
- the one most suitable.
- Roger...
Two fat ladies!
Eighty-eight.
NARRATOR:
His clients always returned.
They gave his name
to their friends
who gave his name
to their friends.
(CAR HONKING)
After all, Hector's rates
were very fair.
They hadn't changed in years.
Okay-
Come to think of it,
neither had Hector.
CLARA'S BOSS:
And if that wasn't enough...
within six days,
our Clara discovers the name
for a companion drug,
which had eluded the marketing
department for six months.
(CHEERING)
Now, that's a talent for words.
But what I love most
about her
is that in the 10 years
that she's been with us,
she has yet to discover
the words "maternity" or "leave."
(LAUGHING, GROANING)
- Clara.
- (CLAPPING)
Thank you, all, so much.
What's in a name?
A glimmer of hope.
A chance for change.
That's right.
A way to alleviate suffering.
It's been five years
since we launched Tranquiline.
Correction. No, it's been
a lifetime for those
- who benefited from it.
- Yeah.
I'm getting emotional.
To Marketing.
- (CHEERING)
- I love you guys!
(CHEERING)
- (PERSIAN MUSIC PLAYING)
- C'est magnifique!
Hit that key.
(CAT-CALLING, JINGLING)
(PERSIAN MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GIGGLING)
- No. No..
Not me. Not me. Oh!
- (CHEERING)
- Come on!
Give them money.
(PERSIAN MUSIC)
(JINGLING, CHEERING)
(SLURRING) Oh, it's...
Yay!
(INAUDIBLE)
"What am I doing?"
(FRENCH ACCENT)
You are intriguing me.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
You are not working
with these people?
Oh, no, I'm Hector.
I'm a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrist.
Hello.
You can help me.
Oh, I think not.
But I want a penis.
- A penis.
- You mean happiness.
Everybody want 'appiness
but you cannot own 'appiness.
Yes, sorry.
It's, uh, elusive, yeah.
- You can't touch happiness.
- You cannot touch 'appiness.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
- (LAUGHING)
- FRENCH LADY:
I do!
Listen to me, I want
a penis in my bottom.
(LAUGHING GROGGILY)
No, no, you want happiness
from the bottom of your heart.
That is what I said,
a penis... in my bottom.
(LAUGHING)
Stop it.
HECTOR:
Oh, God!
- Ahh!
- CLARA:
Oh!
(PANTING)
I love my Hector.
I love my Clara.
No, really, I love
my weird-ass-eccentric-
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