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Hector & the search for happiness [videorecording (DVD)].

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 200608DV | eOneLanguage: English, French Original language: English Publication details: [Toronto] : Entertainment One Films Canada : distributed exclusively in Canada by Entertainment One, 2015.Description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cmOther title:
  • Hector and the search for happiness [videorecording (DVD)]
  • French title from container: Hector et la recherche du bonheur [videorecording (DVD)]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
Production credits:
  • Relativity Media presents ; a Peter Chelsom film ; producers Phil Hunt [and six others] ; screenplay by Maria Von Heland and Peter Chelsom & Tinker Lindsay ; directed by Peter Chelsom.
Cast: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Reno, Veronica Ferres, Barry Atsma and Christopher Plummer.Summary: "Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn't really tasted life, and yet he's offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness."--Container.
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DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA HECTOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001059279

Based on the novel "Le voyage d'Hector ou la recherche du bonheur" by Francois Lelord.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Special features: Around the world with Simon Pegg ; The making of Hector and the search for happiness; director commentary by Peter Chelsom.

Bilingual packaging (English/French).

Relativity Media presents ; a Peter Chelsom film ; producers Phil Hunt [and six others] ; screenplay by Maria Von Heland and Peter Chelsom & Tinker Lindsay ; directed by Peter Chelsom.

Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Reno, Veronica Ferres, Barry Atsma and Christopher Plummer.

"Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn't really tasted life, and yet he's offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness."--Container.

Home use only.

Includes English & French language tracks with optional English (SDH) or Spanish subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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