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Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes38%
Metacritic29/100
Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do.
991 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter ChelsomDirector
- Maria von HelandScreenplay
- Peter ChelsomScreenplay
- Tinker LindsayScreenplay
- Dan ManganOriginal Music Composer
- Jesse ZubotOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Simon PeggHector
- Rosamund PikeClara
- Toni ColletteAgnes
- Stellan SkarsgårdEdward
- Christopher PlummerProfessor Coreman
- Jean RenoDiego Baresco
- Barry AtsmaMichael
- Veronica FerresAnjali
- Ming ZhaoYing Li
- Tracy-Ann ObermanPathetic Jane
- Chad WillettAlan
- Togo IgawaOld Monk
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Themes
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