Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike star in the upcoming comedy/drama Hector and the Search for Happiness which follows Hector (Pegg), a London psychiatrist who decides to go on a journey of self discovery after he becomes fed up with the depressing nature of his patients.
The GCE writes: "The search for happiness is indeed a worthy cause, something people spend a lifetime searching for and truth be told, sometimes never find. To try and sum up that quest in a two hour movie is a very tall order and while those involved with Hector and the Search for Happiness give it a valiant effort, in the end it fails to deliver anything new on the subject."
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He might be Hollywood’s go-to guy, but Simon Pegg hasn’t quite made it yet as a mainstream British movie star. Beyond his cult fanbase, Pegg’s preference for under-achieving films with unwieldy titles has obscured his career. What is he searching for?
Definitive answers aren’t forthcoming in Hector And The Search For Happiness, but at least the quest is heading in the right direction. Pegg plays Hector, a psychiatrist whose perfect life is troubled by a niggling sense of ennui. Abandoning his girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike), he sets off on a globe-trotting voyage of self-discovery.
It might look as though Hallmark, Benetton and Richard Curtis have collaborated on a movie, but Chelsom’s lightly subversive, self-aware tone bolsters Pegg’s best shot yet at a mass-appeal crowd-pleaser.
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Outside his collaborations with Edgar Wright and his stints in the franchise worlds of “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible,” Simon Pegg has admirably found the time to lead another movie here or there. This year finds the English actor doing his attempt at the feel good movie of the year in the adaptation of “Hector and the Search for Happiness” and the first U.S. trailer has arrived online to inspire you spend some money.
