HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Rosamund Pike (An Education), Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting), Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music), Jean Reno (Léon), Chris Gauthier (40 Days and 40 Nights), Chad Willett (Outlaw Justice), Togo Igawa (47Ronin), Gabrielle Rose (Jennifer’s Body), Veronica Ferres (Late Night)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Chelsom (Serendipity), director, writer; Maria von Heland (Big Girls Don’t Cry) and Tinker Lindsay (film debut), writer; Klaus Dohle (One Way), Trish Dolman (The Score), Christine Haebler (Daydream Nation), Phil Hunt (Rabbit on the Moon), Compton Ross (Belle) and Judy Tossell (Almost Heaven), producers; Dan Mangan (The Valley Below) and Jesse Zubot (film debut), composer; Kolja Brandt (The Expatriate), cinematographer; Claus Wehlisch (Cloud Atlas), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Hector (Pegg), a psychiatrist who finds himself trapped between his mundane daily routine and his neurotic girlfriend, Clara (Pike), decides to go on a global quest to find out whether happiness truly exists – and more importantly, whether it exists for himself…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Simon Pegg headlines this feel-good comedy-drama about finding the happiness in everything around us and, more importantly, the happiness within ourselves.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 15TH AUGUST 2014

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