Hector also finds himself in his Search for Happiness

I’m an admitted sap for these kinds of films, even when hardcore critics don’t like them. And despite its rough reviews, I enjoyed Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Hector (Simon Pegg), is a psychiatrist who has lost his sense of happiness in life. He has an adoring girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike, known for last year’s Gone Girl) and a successful career, but one day he realizes he has lost happiness, if he ever had it at all, and is just going through the motions of life. He decides to set out on a solo trek around the world to find the meaning of happiness. He keeps his notes in a journal, and each entry as he makes it is scribbled across the screen in a charming quirky manner. Some are funny, but most are thought provoking or poignant. He has many adventures across the globe, before coming to know true happiness is in himself, and is just waiting there for him to reach out and grab it.

I’m a sucker for these “finding yourself” kind of films. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It is funny and Simon Pegg is his affable self, but he does manage to stretch his character and show a side we don’t often see in his other comedic roles. It’s just a good old feel good kind of movie.