Hector and the Search for Happiness vs Transamerica

Transamerica has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.7/10 for Hector and the Search for Happiness). Transamerica is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 1h 54m. Transamerica is the older of the two (2005 against 2014). Both are adventure, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Hector and the Search for HappinessTransamerica
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.0/10
Year20142005
Length1h 54m1h 43m
GenresAdventure, Comedy, DramaAdventure, Comedy, Drama
Country––
DirectorPeter ChelsomDuncan Tucker
Main castMing Zhao, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Jean RenoCarrie Preston, Stella Maeve, Felicity Huffman, Raynor Scheine, Kevin Zegers

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…

Transamerica

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

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