While understanding that Hector and the Search for Happiness is meant to be a parable, and not realistic, it uses the most condescending fortune-cookie thinking. Subscribe to TRAILERS: Subscribe to COMING SOON: Subscribe to INDIE & FILM FESTIVALS: Like. Hector and the Search for Happiness: A Novel (Movie Tie-in) and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more Critics Consensus: Simon Pegg remains as charming as ever, but Hector and the Search for Happiness drowns his appeal in schmaltz. Happiness means steering clear of “Hector and the Search for Happiness.” A supremely irritating marriage of picture-postcard exoticism and motivational uplift. Share this Rating. Title: Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) 6.9 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Rent Hector And The Search For Happiness and other new DVD releases and Blu-ray Discs from your nearest Redbox location. Or reserve your copy of Hector And The Search. Hector and the Search for Happiness movie reviews & Metacritic score: A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. Subscribe to TRAILERS: Subscribe to COMING SOON: Subscribe to INDIE TRAILERS: Like us on. Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 British comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom and co-written with Tinker Lindsay and Maria von Heland, based on.