A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations
- Pathetic Jane
- (as Tracy Ann Oberman)
Storyline
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- TriviaWhen Hector visits the Himalayas, the flags are Tibetan prayer flags, whose colors represent the five elements. Health and harmony can be produced with the balance of all the elements. It is the belief that the wind will carry the prayers and mantras to provide good will and compassion to the surrounding areas.
- GoofsHector uses computers and more specifically Skype several times to videochat with his girlfriend, yet none of the computers he uses seem to be equipped with the necessary camera or microphone that enables his girlfriend to see and hear him.
- Quotes
Hector: 1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
Hector: 2. A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.
Hector: 3. Many people only see happiness in their future.
Hector: 4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.
Hector: 5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Hector: 6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.
Hector: 7. Does this person bring you predominantly a. up b. down?
Hector: 8. Happiness is answering your calling.
Hector: 9. Happiness is being loved for who you are.
Hector: 10. Sweet Potato Stew!
Hector: 11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.
Hector: 12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.
Hector: 13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.
Hector: 14. Listening is loving.
Hector: 15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Projector: Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
- SoundtracksAbout As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
Written by Dan Mangan & Kenton Loewen
Performed by Dan Mangan
Orchestral arrangements by Eyvind Kang
Published by Dan Mangan Music (SOCAN)
Courtesy of Arts & Crafts Productions
Turned out to be a great film. Funny, poignant, and inspiring all at once. Simon Pegg is terrific as a psychiatrist who experiences a sort of existential crisis, and decides to disrupt his tidy, organize, and predictable life to search for the makings of Happiness. His research produces a collection of Buddhist-like conclusions about what may or may not lead to happiness. Along the way, Pegg's character, Hector, begins to 'live', and we the viewer, if we're paying attention, gain some philosophical insights.
The more I think about this film, the more layers of meaning and nuance I realize were lurking beneath the surface of this thoroughly delightful movie. I left the cinema feeling introspective, inspired, and ...Happy. I was moved to indulge in some of the little things that make me happy: a few bars of Amedei chocolate, a meander through the arboretum, a book of poetry; as well as moved to examine what things in my life lead to happiness, and what things lead to unhappiness.
This is a film I would like to see again, and will likely purchase for my movie library.
- sfgeoff-913-424177
- Oct 3, 2014
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- Also known as
- Hành Trình Đến Hạnh Phúc
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,124,445
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $40,847
- Sep 21, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $6,337,728
- Runtime1 hour 54 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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