This is pilgrimage movie about a burnt-out British psychiatrist travelling to China, Africa and LA to discover the truth about happiness. It's an interesting enough film, promising to dispense grand truths about happiness. However, the movie lapses into cheesiness and triteness. I blame the writing or the story, because the movie was well made and the acting was good enough. I can't say I came out of the movie learning anything profound about happiness at all. The happiness insights seemed sophomoric. I want to finish by saying that the movie had a few nice points and did move me, especially near the end. Worth about 6.5 in my book.
Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness
