China Synopsis
“Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.”
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, 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. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
The 2013–2015 China Window
107 China films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Hector and the Search for Happiness sits at position #29.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Hector and the Search for Happiness premiered. 515 total titles in this decade from China.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #462 of 946 China films indexed here (51st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Adventure productions specifically: #80 of 178 (top 45%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, China, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | German, English, French |
| Production Companies | Screen Siren Pictures, Egoli Tossell Film, Relativity Media, Bankside Films, Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG |
| Runtime | 1h 54m |
| Release Date | August 14, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt1626146 |