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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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Village Voice
Hector is trying to say something true about a generation of quietly dissatisfied demi-adults who are terrified to take emotional risks. At least it left its comfort zone and tried.
40
Empire
Despite the gusto its star brings to the role, it's hard to ride shotgun on Hector's voyage of discovery.
40
Simon Pegg plays the world’s most unconvincing psychiatrist in this fluffy, irritating Brit comedy.
40
Hector wants to connect to our inner child, but it feels more like a long story from a good-hearted but dull grandparent.
40
Mr. Pegg, normally a live wire, makes an affable hero, but the movie often forces him into blandly earnest mugging.
