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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

Many critics did not care for this movie, but we very much enjoyed it.  Hector is stuck.  He is a psychiatrist and he just cannot seem to get his mojo back.  He is a mild mannered kind man who suddenly realizes that he is being rude to his patients, inattentive to his girlfriend, and just generally not happy.
So he decides to take off on an open-ended adventure that has no destination, no end, and in a lot of ways, a questionable beginning.  He goes from China to Africa to Southern California in his quest to find what brings people happiness, he reconnects with two people from his past, and while you might question his choice of locations and his methods for finding happiness, he does manage to get to the place that he hoped to get when he began his trip, and unlocks his ability to allow emotions to take over, at least on occasion, rather than being ruled completely by rationality.  A fun and not to deep movie that is streaming on Netflix with the talented Simon Pegg playing the role of Hector.

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