Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

Hector and Clara live in a gorgeous apartment, have great jobs, and a close relationship. But therapist Hector's started to wonder if he's being at all helpful to any of his patients and it's resulted in a case of "what even IS happiness?" So, he decides to travel the world to see if he can figure it out.

He enjoys some hedonism, travels to a remote monastery, pitches in at a medical outreach, enjoys some home cooking in a small village, meets and helps a drug lord, gets kidnapped, and even reconnects with an old lover. All along the way, he asks everyone what their idea of happiness is and dutifully records their answers in his travel notebook. Meanwhile, his calls home feel more and more distant, as though Clara is mentally moving on.

I don't know what this movie was trying to be, but I don't think it achieved the goal. Hector just seemed like a dude with too much looking for even more. Basically, "I'm having a midlife crisis but I've got enough money to make an IMPORTANT SOUL JOURNEY out of it."

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