Movie · 2014
Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.”
Released 14 August 2014 114 min Adventure / Drama / Comedy More from 2014 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Christopher Plummer
as Professor Coreman
Mary Twala
as Grim Granny
Bernard Cuffling
as Professor Niedorf
Togo Igawa
as Old Monk
Jean Reno
as Diego Baresco
Stellan Skarsgård
as Edward
Gabrielle Rose
as French Proprietress
Veronica Ferres
as Anjali
Tracy-Ann Oberman
as Pathetic Jane
Simon Pegg
as Hector
Chad Willett
as Alan
Toni Collette
as Agnes
Barry Atsma
as Michael
Chris Gauthier
as Roger
Rosamund Pike
as Clara
Michael Adamthwaite
as Queen's Guard
Jakob Davies
as Young Hector
Ming Zhao
as Ying Li
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The numbers
$1mworldwide box office
73years between the oldest and youngest billed
84Christopher Plummer — oldest on the call sheet
11Jakob Davies — youngest billed
51average age of the credited cast