Searching high and lowĪfter he finds himself ranting at a hapless patient, Hector sets out on a quest, backpack and journal in tow. A successful psychiatrist with a tricked-out London flat and a beautiful, smart and solicitous girlfriend, Hector is feeling trapped by the cautious routine of his life and infuriated by his patients, what with their depression and never-ending laments about their marital woes.
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“True authentic happiness,” he says, “is a byproduct of full immersion in something else-communicating, teaching, learning, giving, dancing, singing.” Or as the happiness researcher in Peter’s new comedy-drama, Hector and the Search for Happiness, puts it, “We should concern ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit.” Trapped by routineīased on a best-selling French novel by François Lelord, the movie follows the around-the-world journey of Hector, played by British actor Simon Pegg ( Shaun of the Dead), as he seeks the secret to happiness. Happiness happens not through a hunt, says film director Peter Chelsom, but by happenstance. But when you’ve misplaced what the French call joie de vivre-a hearty joy of living-searching will only lead you astray. Searching for a lost cell phone or set of keys makes sense. "Hector and the Search for Happiness" shows you don't have to travel the globe to find what's right under your nose.