Hector and the Search for Happiness vs Princes and Princesses

Princes and Princesses has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.7/10 for Hector and the Search for Happiness). Princes and Princesses is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 1h 54m. Princes and Princesses is the older of the two (2000 against 2014). Both are adventure, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hector and the Search for Happiness posterHector and the Search for Happiness2014 VS Princes and Princesses posterPrinces and Princesses2000
Hector and the Search for HappinessPrinces and Princesses
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.7/10
Year20142000
Length1h 54m1h 10m
GenresAdventure, Comedy, DramaAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country–France
DirectorPeter ChelsomMichel Ocelot
Main castMing Zhao, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Jean RenoYves Barsacq, Philippe Cheytion, Arlette Mirapeu, François Voisin

Synopsis

Hector and the Search for Happiness

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…

Princes and Princesses

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.

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