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Hector and the Search for Happiness
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3432
- IMDb #2484
- Google retired #1300
- Rotten Tomatoes #3764
- Metacritic #4148
- Letterboxd #3211
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4390
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3320
- Metacritic Critics #4804
- Metacritic Audience #1768
- Kinopoisk #1654
- AlloCiné #2232
- Trakt #2464
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 29, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 34, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A quirky London psychiatrist feels his life and practice have become predictable and unfulfilling. He impulsively embarks on a global journey to discover what truly makes people happy. His adventure takes him from China to Africa to Los Angeles, encountering a variety of people and cultures, all while trying to answer the fundamental question of whether happiness is something that can be found or must be built.
Details
- Director
- Peter Chelsom
- Writers
- Maria von Heland, Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay
- Released
- 14 August 2014
- Country
- Canada, China, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, French, German
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $1.1M
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Awards
2 wins & 6 nominations total
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