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Hector and the Search for Happiness A poignant, imaginative, entertaining, 114-minute, comedic drama in which a regimented, naive, bow-tie-wearing, British psychiatrist (Simon Pegg), who leaves his longtime girlfriend (Rosamund Pike) in London, wants happiness eventually for himself and for his patients (Tracy Ann Oberman, Veronica Ferres, Chris Gauthier, et al.) and then goes on a heartfelt journey that begins in Shanghai where he meets a cynical, wealthy banker (Stellan Skarsgård) and an abused Chinese prostitute (Ming Zhao), continues in Africa where he helps a selfless friend (Barry Atsma) at a village hospital and a notorious drug dealer (Jean Reno) to get his overmedicated wife back, and ends in Los Angeles where he meets up with a pregnant, psychologist former flame (Toni Collette) with two kids and a professor (Christopher Plummer) also studying happiness.   Redhead: Year: 2014 Rating:  R View Hector and the Search for Happiness on the Internet Movie Database