Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom and co-written with Tinker Lindsay and Maria von Heland, based on François Lelord s novel of the same name. The film stars Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

Plot

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. He tells his girlfriend, Clara, that he needs to go on a journey to research happiness. On a flight to China, he is seated next to Edward, a cranky businessman. Edward takes Hector to a very exclusive nightclub in Shanghai, where Hector meets a young woman named Ying Li and instantly falls for her.

He asks to meet Ying Li s family. She declines, ashamed of how she makes her living. Their date is interrupted by her pimp, who takes Ying Li away by force. Hector then ventures into the mountains and visits a monastery, where he befriends their leader and talks briefly with Clara via Skype.

Hector departs on a terrifying plane ride to Africa, where a woman invites him to her family s house for sweet potato stew, and gives him a book about happiness written by one Professor Coreman. Hector meets up with his old friend Michael, a physician, with his bodyguard Marcel, and later meets a quick-tempered drug lord named Diego Baresco, who doesn t believe in happiness because his wife is unhappy due to her medication. After inquiring about these medications, Hector draws up a new list of drugs for her to take, using a pen loaned to him by Baresco.

Hector discovers that Marcel is Michael s lover, and they are happy. He Skypes again with Clara, who is going out in a fancy gown and seems uninterested in talking to him. He visits the local woman whom he befriended on the plane and her family for dinner. On the way home, his vehicle is carjacked and Hector is kidnapped and locked in a rat-infested cell. When the kidnappers decide to kill him, Hector claims to be friends with Diego to save himself, but cannot prove it. With a gun pointed at his head, Hector asks if he can make one final note in his book about what brings his captors happiness. When his captors give Hector the pen that fell from his book, Hector discovers that Baresco engraved his name onto the pen, thus proving his connection to the drug lord. Upon his release, Hector makes his way back to the village where he celebrates with the locals.

While flying to Los Angeles, Hector attends to a woman with a brain tumor. Hector then goes to the beach in Santa Monica and encounters Agnes, an old girlfriend, who is now happily married with children. Hector calls Clara and they break up in an argument.

Agnes and Hector meet with Professor Coreman, who is studying the effects of happiness on the brain. During a lecture, Coreman points out that people shouldn t be concerned with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit. Agnes and Hector check out a project Coreman has been working on, which monitors brain activity in real time and how it reacts to different emotions.

Agnes is instructed to go into an isolated room and think about three things: times when she was happy, sad and scared. Through his brain-scanning technology, Coreman is able to tell in which order she thought about the three emotions. When Hector takes his turn, he thinks about Clara marrying someone else, about his time being kidnapped, and about Ying Li, but his emotions are strangely blocked. He receives a call from remorseful Clara, who tells him she wants to be a mother. Hector explains what he s learned, that the most unhappy thing he could imagine would be to lose her. Suddenly Hector s brain scan erupts with a flurry of activity, mimicking the colored flags from the monastery and revealing that true happiness isn t just one emotion; it s all of them. Having finally achieved his own happiness, Hector rushes home and marries Clara.

Cast

• Simon Pegg as Hector
• Toni Collette as Agnes
• Rosamund Pike as Clara
• Stellan Skarsgård as Edward
• Jean Reno as Diego Baresco
• Veronica Ferres as Anjali
• Barry Atsma as Michael
• Ming Zhao as Ying Li
• Togo Igawa as Old Monk
• Christopher Plummer as Professor Coreman

Production

On 19 May 2012, Simon Pegg was cast in the title role, Hector. On 6 September 2012, Rosamund Pike and Christopher Plummer joined the cast of the film. Pike played Clara while Plummer played Professor Coreman. On 1 November 2012, Stellan Skarsgård also joined the cast, playing Edward. German actress Veronica Ferres also joined the film, playing a clairvoyant who has lost her ability to see into the future. The film began production in January 2013. On 2 April 2013, Toni Collette and Jean Reno joined the cast of the film, along with Jakob Davies. The film was made on a £9 million ($15 million) production budget.

Relativity Media acquired the US distribution rights to the film, and released the film there on 19 September 2014.

Marketing

The first trailer was released on 5 February 2014. Another trailer was released on 21 June. An international trailer for the film was released on 15 July 2014. On 22 July, the final trailer for the film was released.

Release

The film was released in the United Kingdom by Koch Film on 15 August 2014. Relativity Media released the film in the United States on 19 September 2014. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Reception

Hector and the Search for Happiness has been met with generally mixed to negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 37%, based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 4.62/10. The consensus states, Simon Pegg remains as charming as ever, but Hector and the Search for Happiness drowns his appeal in schmaltz. On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 29 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews .

Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom and co-written with Tinker Lindsay and Maria von Heland, based on François Lelord s novel of the same name. The film stars Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

Plot

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. He tells his girlfriend, Clara, that he needs to go on a journey to research happiness. On a flight to China, he is seated next to Edward, a cranky businessman. Edward takes Hector to a very exclusive nightclub in Shanghai, where Hector meets a young woman named Ying Li and instantly falls for her.

He asks to meet Ying Li s family. She declines, ashamed of how she makes her living. Their date is interrupted by her pimp, who takes Ying Li away by force. Hector then ventures into the mountains and visits a monastery, where he befriends their leader and talks briefly with Clara via Skype.

Hector departs on a terrifying plane ride to Africa, where a woman invites him to her family s house for sweet potato stew, and gives him a book about happiness written by one Professor Coreman. Hector meets up with his old friend Michael, a physician, with his bodyguard Marcel, and later meets a quick-tempered drug lord named Diego Baresco, who doesn t believe in happiness because his wife is unhappy due to her medication. After inquiring about these medications, Hector draws up a new list of drugs for her to take, using a pen loaned to him by Baresco.

Hector discovers that Marcel is Michael s lover, and they are happy. He Skypes again with Clara, who is going out in a fancy gown and seems uninterested in talking to him. He visits the local woman whom he befriended on the plane and her family for dinner. On the way home, his vehicle is carjacked and Hector is kidnapped and locked in a rat-infested cell. When the kidnappers decide to kill him, Hector claims to be friends with Diego to save himself, but cannot prove it. With a gun pointed at his head, Hector asks if he can make one final note in his book about what brings his captors happiness. When his captors give Hector the pen that fell from his book, Hector discovers that Baresco engraved his name onto the pen, thus proving his connection to the drug lord. Upon his release, Hector makes his way back to the village where he celebrates with the locals.

While flying to Los Angeles, Hector attends to a woman with a brain tumor. Hector then goes to the beach in Santa Monica and encounters Agnes, an old girlfriend, who is now happily married with children. Hector calls Clara and they break up in an argument.

Agnes and Hector meet with Professor Coreman, who is studying the effects of happiness on the brain. During a lecture, Coreman points out that people shouldn t be concerned with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit. Agnes and Hector check out a project Coreman has been working on, which monitors brain activity in real time and how it reacts to different emotions.

Agnes is instructed to go into an isolated room and think about three things: times when she was happy, sad and scared. Through his brain-scanning technology, Coreman is able to tell in which order she thought about the three emotions. When Hector takes his turn, he thinks about Clara marrying someone else, about his time being kidnapped, and about Ying Li, but his emotions are strangely blocked. He receives a call from remorseful Clara, who tells him she wants to be a mother. Hector explains what he s learned, that the most unhappy thing he could imagine would be to lose her. Suddenly Hector s brain scan erupts with a flurry of activity, mimicking the colored flags from the monastery and revealing that true happiness isn t just one emotion; it s all of them. Having finally achieved his own happiness, Hector rushes home and marries Clara.

Cast

• Simon Pegg as Hector
• Toni Collette as Agnes
• Rosamund Pike as Clara
• Stellan Skarsgård as Edward
• Jean Reno as Diego Baresco
• Veronica Ferres as Anjali
• Barry Atsma as Michael
• Ming Zhao as Ying Li
• Togo Igawa as Old Monk
• Christopher Plummer as Professor Coreman

Production

On 19 May 2012, Simon Pegg was cast in the title role, Hector. On 6 September 2012, Rosamund Pike and Christopher Plummer joined the cast of the film. Pike played Clara while Plummer played Professor Coreman. On 1 November 2012, Stellan Skarsgård also joined the cast, playing Edward. German actress Veronica Ferres also joined the film, playing a clairvoyant who has lost her ability to see into the future. The film began production in January 2013. On 2 April 2013, Toni Collette and Jean Reno joined the cast of the film, along with Jakob Davies. The film was made on a £9 million ($15 million) production budget.

Relativity Media acquired the US distribution rights to the film, and released the film there on 19 September 2014.

Marketing

The first trailer was released on 5 February 2014. Another trailer was released on 21 June. An international trailer for the film was released on 15 July 2014. On 22 July, the final trailer for the film was released.

Release

The film was released in the United Kingdom by Koch Film on 15 August 2014. Relativity Media released the film in the United States on 19 September 2014. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Reception

Hector and the Search for Happiness has been met with generally mixed to negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 37%, based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 4.62/10. The consensus states, Simon Pegg remains as charming as ever, but Hector and the Search for Happiness drowns his appeal in schmaltz. On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 29 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews .

Year	2014
ReleaseDate	2014-08-14
RuntimeMins	114
RuntimeStr	1h 54min
Plot	A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Awards	Awards, 2 wins & 6 nominations
Directors	Peter Chelsom
Writers	Maria von Heland, Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay
Stars	Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy-Ann Oberman
Produced by	John Albanis,Markus Aldenhoven,Christian Angermayer,Kim Arnott,Oliver Damian,Mohammed Hans Dastmaltchi,Hilary Davis,Natacha Devillers,Klaus Dohle,Trish Dolman,Daniel Ehrenberg,Veronica Ferres,Marc Gabizon,Christine Haebler,Klemens Hallmann,Marc Hansell,Peter Hermann,Phil Hope,Alan Howard,Phil Hunt,Ryan Kavanaugh,Stephen Kelliher,Roman Klink,Nina Maag,Benjamin Melkman,Jens Meurer,Yoshi Nishio,Nick O Hagan,Oliver Puls,Rainer Puls,Yasin Qureshi,Markus Reinecke,Compton Ross,Elliot Ross,Fenella Ross,Jens-Peter Stein,Christine Strobl,Tucker Tooley,Judy Tossell,Brad Van Arragon,Amelie von Kienlin,Haydn Wazelle,Jona Wirbeleit
Music by	Dan Mangan,Jesse Zubot
Cinematography by	Kolja Brandt
Film Editing by	Claus Wehlisch
Casting By	Deborah Aquila,Judy Lee,Tricia Wood
Production Design by	Michael Diner
Art Direction by	Laurel Bergman,Jo Mooney,Emilia Roux,Fabienne van de Koolwijk
Set Decoration by	James Willcock
Costume Design by	Guy Speranza
Makeup Department	Anne Carroll,Dorothee Deichmann,Diane Holme,Monica Huppert,Sofia Phillips,Danna Rutherford,Forest Sala,Janet Sala,Nadine Scherer,Nino Raymond Shongwe
Production Management	Dominik Bollen,Natacha Devillers,Cheryl Eatock,Max Fuhrmann,Jens Geibel,Dylan Mohan Gray,Rumana Gray,Bill James,Christopher Kulikowski,Lisa Kussner,Jim O Grady,Anup Poddar,Meryl Schutte,David Taylor,Michael Williams,Sisi Wu
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Paula Antil,Paul Barry,Jan Bernotat,Laura Hunter,Mac Mbah,Andrew Mckenzie,Jason Moskie,Lynsey Muir,Philip Nee Nee,Sandile Ntobela,Amanda Petura,Sarah Rayner,Jingyi Shao,Sam Smith,Samuel A. Smith,Fiona Winning
Year	2014
Art Department	Sandra Baier,John Beatty,Amber Boorman,Shannon Courte,Peter Cummings,Colin J. Czarnecki,Sipho Dandala,Sunette Du Plessis,Robert J. Dugdale,Antonio Germinario,Lara Gildenhuys,Lisa Godwin,Ariane Haase,Kate Hilson,Holger Isenberg,Wei Jing,Todd Keller,Irvin Kone,Garrow Kruger,Anthony Langkilde,François Lelord,Meng Lingzhou,Guanjun Lu,Kate McColgan,Jason McConnell,Kagiso Merewotlhe,Abdurrah Mthabo Metsing,Thabiso David Mohapi,Garry Moore,Joy Munt,Lauren Nell,Johannes Reichelt-Hansen,Raphaele Reineke,Lawra Robertson,Emilia Roux,Hannah Rowan,Danny Ryan,Michael Schroll,Olly Steele,Augustine Taylor,Philipp Wandrey,Maggie Wilson,Samantha Wohlwend,Renata Zaleska
Sound Department	Felix Andriessens,Alexej Ashkenazy,Riza Aydin,Adrian Baumeister,Florian Beck,Maximilian Benjamin,Alexander Beyer,Simon Bright,Colette D. Dahanne,Jesse Ehredt,Rebekka Garrido,Michael Hough,Christian Lehmler,Tim Limer,Tumelo Maesela,Dash Mason-Malik,John Midgley,Pascal Morgan,Sebastian Morsch,Michael Moser,Mark Noda,Carsten Richter,Markus Stemler,Martin Steyer,André Stiebe,Marcus Sujata,Sebastian Türk,Michael Vetter,Hanse Warns,David Ziegler
ReleaseDate	2014-08-14
Special Effects by	Kevin Bitters,Alex Burdett,Terence J. Cox,Mario Duthie,Mark Mentiply,Gwyn E. Shipman
RuntimeMins	114
Visual Effects by	Matthias Albrecht,Maren Dolzmann,Alexandra Fried,Ricardo José Rodrigues Fugueiredo,Sebastian Göhs,Markus Hauf,Stefan Kessner,Julia Kietzmann,Tim Markgraf,Jan Meckes,Thomas Ramin,Max Stolzenberg,Christoph Struber,Robert Tomala,Ron Turner
RuntimeStr	1h 54min
Stunts	Scott J. Ateah,Dan Hirst,Glenn Marks,Stanzin Norbu,Owen Walstrom,He Wei
Plot	A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Camera and Electrical Department	Mohammed Akhtar,Ed Araquel,Ludwe Balintulo,Rovin Basi,Amrit Bawa,Alex Bender,Thomas Berz,Bastian Bohner,Paul Brewster,Chris Cavanagh,Julian Chapdelaine,Ian Coffey,Cody Cusinko,Nicholas Dent,Hongwei Diao,Jabu Dlamini,Marian Engel,Tyler Field,Niklas Fischer,Ray Geldenhuys,Spiro Grant,Chris Griffin,Shao Haifeng,Longfu Hei,Danny Ho,Kyle Hou,Kieran Humphries,Gaelle Jego,Justin Johns,Devin Kaczmarski,Tom Kaczmarski,Christian Klehr,Jan Klompje,Justin Lesch,Jim Lester,Mo Lesunyane,Jinlong Liu,Oliver Loncraine,David Lourie,Iain MacKay,Stephen Maier,Evelyn Makgata,Fenghua Mao,Saied Marcondes,Dave McLean,Li Mengnan,Mark Meyer,Guanghai Mo,Jilin Mo,Collin Morrison,Dan Morrison,Dan Morrison,Shane Nasmith,Khathu Ndlovu,Jakob Neumeier,Steven Ngalo,Brian Nkosi,Nicholas Oja,Quincy Paglaro,Guy Paterson,Alex Payne,Andrew Pedley,Ryan Perier,Kyle Pigeau,Rick Podd,Keshav Prakash,Dietmar Raiff,Grant Antony Rowe,Cody Rusinko,Salomon Saade,David Savinkoff,Dean Schwingboth,Ian Seabrook,Mathias Seitz,Chandra Sekhar,Iqbal Shaikh,Wahid Shaikh,Keith Sherril,Keith Sherritt,Keith Skerrit,Peter Smith,Kat Spencer,Trevor Steeves,Michael Swan,Raydawn Tilley,Derek Ueckermann,Kieran Waites,Charlie Wall,Jeffrey Weil,Steve Whitford,Brodie Wilkinson,Tyler Woeste,Andy Woodcock,Adriene Wyse,Terry Yan,Tian Yuan
Casting Department	Iris B.,Blake Banbury,Amanda Bartley,Bonnie Lee Bouman,Urvashi Chugani,James Forsyth,Eunice Gwabe,Ed Hardy,Vanessa Liebenberg,Dave T. Nall,Lisa Overy,Edward D. Rea,Matthew Tingey,Wang Wenxiang,Shane West,Lisa Zagoria
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Tshepo Baloyi,Lindsey Bundschuh,Joana Casado,Patricia Hargreaves,Lindy Hemming,Susan McGillvrey,Aggie Mokwena,Ntombi Zandile Mokwena,Renate Schulz,Zureta Schulz,Hansie Sedibe,Debbie Tallman,Titi Tang,Claudia Torsiello,Sandra Watson,Tamsin Wright,Shelley Zabel,Angelina Zhao
Awards	Awards, 2 wins & 6 nominations
Editorial Department	Matthias Albrecht,Markus Bauerle,Ivar Beer,Laura G. Chirinos,Stratton Farrar,Sebastian Göhs,Toska Hartmann,Andreas Helm,Heike Ipfling,Andrea Jacob,Kerstin Kellner,Ansgar Krützmann,Ute Lingner,Morten McAdams,Stefan Müller,Adam Nazarenko
Directors	Peter Chelsom
Location Management	Mike Atwater,Eric Beaupre,Anne-Cécile Boulais,Anna Braumberger,A.J. Cattapan,Erin Dixon,Dan Ferrara,Katie Gallant,Meredith Garstin,Michael Gazetas,Jens Geibel,Peter D. George,Andrew Thomas Hopkins,Keith Humell,Angela Jeffery,Plamena Koutzarova,Marla Kozak,Zoe La Liberte,Paul Lougheed,Carlos Loza,Tony Lu,Tim Matheson,Hanna Menon,Keli Moore,George D. Oopal,Tao Ran,Mike Reimer,Shane Scott,Herman Silva,Steve Stiller,Lydia Strojin,Elycia Tammpere,Owen Thomas,Hayley Vickers,Adam Webb,Chris Webb,Mark Wilson,Anthony Wittrock,Qing Zhang
Writers	Maria von Heland, Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay
Music Department	Scoring Stage Babelsberg,Adrian Baumeister,Matt Biffa,Mary-Cate Byrne,Falko Duczmal,Jonathan Feurich,Henning Fuchs,Peter Fuchs,Dan Mangan,Nora Mullally,Paul Rabjohns,Lance Soler,Colin Stewart,Bernd Wefelmeyer,Jesse Zubot
Stars	Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy-Ann Oberman
Script and Continuity Department	Robert Brinkschulte,Susanna David,Patti Henderson,Norbert Maass,Glenn Marks
Produced by	John Albanis,Markus Aldenhoven,Christian Angermayer,Kim Arnott,Oliver Damian,Mohammed Hans Dastmaltchi,Hilary Davis,Natacha Devillers,Klaus Dohle,Trish Dolman,Daniel Ehrenberg,Veronica Ferres,Marc Gabizon,Christine Haebler,Klemens Hallmann,Marc Hansell,Peter Hermann,Phil Hope,Alan Howard,Phil Hunt,Ryan Kavanaugh,Stephen Kelliher,Roman Klink,Nina Maag,Benjamin Melkman,Jens Meurer,Yoshi Nishio,Nick O Hagan,Oliver Puls,Rainer Puls,Yasin Qureshi,Markus Reinecke,Compton Ross,Elliot Ross,Fenella Ross,Jens-Peter Stein,Christine Strobl,Tucker Tooley,Judy Tossell,Brad Van Arragon,Amelie von Kienlin,Haydn Wazelle,Jona Wirbeleit
Transportation Department	Reese Alexander,Gordon Alyward,Anochuk,Ludwe Balintulo,Bishop Bluin,Bob Chase,Wenyou Chen,Yugui Chen,Stephen Cholakis,Fred Davies,Jimmy Davies,Walter Dumonceaux,David Dunn,Jun Feng,Maocheng Feng,James Ferrara,Robert Fiveash,Gang Guo,Ryan Hammerquist,Yonglin Han,Louie Hausner,Daren Holt,Peter Holt,Hasan Huseyin,Mick Joslyn,Tk Khampepe,Bruno Kiala,Robin King,Garrow Kruger,Long Gen Lai,Jianglin Li,Jun Li,Vusi Mabaso,Patrick Makhuvele,Zuko Manqina,Darryl Martin,Stuart Martin,Richard Mayencourt,Billy McRobbie,Abdurrahimm Thabo Metsing,Michael Middleton,Pierre Miranda,Kholwani Mkhawanazi,Aggie Mokwena,Khathu Ndlovu,Sandile Ngcobo,Norbu,Ernest Nti,John Ott,Walter Pemlacy,Jianping Qiu,Garry Radons,David Rosenbaum,David Rosenbaum,Danny Ryan,Bart Sample,Rebecca Sands,Reiner Schallish,Hendrik Sebulela,Shambhu Shankar,Jiaman Shen,Rodney Small,Liu Smuqino,Morris Tancredi,Jianping Tang,Alfred Tshabalala,Richard Ushe,Gary Van Denberg,Adam Wakeham,Jiabiao Wang,Jianwei Wang,Longgen Wang,Yong Wei,Changjiang Xiao,Kang Xiao,Mingchan Yang,Xiangping Yang,Zhenghua Yao,Nongji Yuan,Chuanchuan Zhang,Fugen Zhang,Jing Zhang,Yong Zhang,Ru Lou Zhu
Music by	Dan Mangan,Jesse Zubot
Additional Crew	Uli Adomat,Shamsan Anders,Reno Antoniades,Mike Atwater,Daisy Baldry,Begoña Ballester-Olmos,Zhou Baojian,Debera Barager,Natalie Beer,Dorothe Beinemeier,Julie Bezuidenhout,Anthony Bloom,Yves Boczek,Dave Booys,Marc Borja,Anne-Cécile Boulais,Robert Brinkschulte,Vicky Brooker,Gero Brugmann,Leah Buchanan,Corine Buffel,Grant Butler,Sandra Cinelli,Lisa Ciniglio,James Cleave,John Crowther,Erin Dixon,Ian Doig,Xia Dong,Keith Dunkerley,David Lee Dunn,Karyn Edwards,Anne Engel,Thobelani Faku,Claire Finbow,Daryl Francis,Regina Frankenberger,Katie Gallant,Rochan Ganu,Rebekka Garrido,Meredith Garstin,Christian Gill,Gabriel Henrique Gonzalez,Thorsten Gottschalk,Renate Graichen,Dylan Mohan Gray,Nic Grigg,Rene Grobler,Marc Hansell,Yiwei Hao,Iona Harris,Carol Heij,Anne Hofmann,Gerhard Horhager,Dingming Hu,Avery Huang,Betsy Huang,Laureen Hui,Laura Hunter,Roelof Jackson,Lorraine Jamison,Hu Jian,Ge Jin,Anja Karg,Qing Ke,Gift Khumalo,Tine Kollmar,Astrid Krebs,Zenon Kristen,Sandra Kunack,Lerlynn Landsman,Valerie Legrain-Doussau,Frank Lehmann,Jessie Li,Friederike Linge,Yi Liu,Dong Liuyu,Ray MacLean,Grace MacLeod,Themba Madonsela,Wolrige Mahon,Emma Mallett,Lebo Matila,Josiah Matsefe,Jim McKeown,Hanna Menon,Christos Michaels,Amy Miller,Mr. Monze,Michael Moyo,Edwin Mukong,Gigi Neal,Daniel Nyavikondo,Sarah O Connell,Deirdre O Hara,Allison Palmer,Andreas Pense,Evelin Penttilä,Monica Perez,Heidi Peters,Freya Pinsent,Anup Poddar,Dirk Poppendieck,Andrew Powell,Song Qi,Reuben Rahube,Amy Rain,Christine Rau,James Reid,Matti Reissig,Lawra Robertson,Stanzin Sanjay,Brodi-Jo Scalise,Michael Schmetz,Eva B. Schmieg,Mary-Beth Schwalm,Eve Schwender,Angela Scurrah,Raham Moleko Shabalala,Thami Shabangu,Jingyi Shao,Ryan Senzeni Sibu,Virginie Simon,Susan Sojka,Christopher Spencer,Lydia Strojin,Tanglu,Todd Thomas,Sofie Thorner-Andersen,Clement Twala,Rudi Van As,Rolette Van Wyk,Nikki Vaughan,Amanda Verhagen,Cindy Villa,Wangou,David Wicht,Jona Wirbeleit,Anthony Wittrock,Tomas Wittrup,Tan Xiaohua,Tang Ying,Andrew Jack,Harro von Have
Cinematography by	Kolja Brandt
Thanks	Carter Cohn,Elizabeth Dench,Keith Dunkerley,Craig A. Emanuel,Rebekka Garrido,Tyler Goeckner-Zoeller,Dave Grohl,Mark Holder,Jerome Lewis,Lindsay McCracken,Christoph Ott,Susanne Preissler,Michael Reuter,Mike Romo,Derek Rose,Colin Stewart,Susan Stroud,Alice Temperley,Sue Trutter,William F. White
Film Editing by	Claus Wehlisch
Genres	Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Casting By	Deborah Aquila,Judy Lee,Tricia Wood
Companies	Egoli Tossell Pictures, Film Afrika Worldwide, Construction Film
Production Design by	Michael Diner
Countries	Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Art Direction by	Laurel Bergman,Jo Mooney,Emilia Roux,Fabienne van de Koolwijk
Languages	English, French, German
Set Decoration by	James Willcock
ContentRating	R
Costume Design by	Guy Speranza
ImDbRating	6.9
Makeup Department	Anne Carroll,Dorothee Deichmann,Diane Holme,Monica Huppert,Sofia Phillips,Danna Rutherford,Forest Sala,Janet Sala,Nadine Scherer,Nino Raymond Shongwe
ImDbRatingVotes	48476
Production Management	Dominik Bollen,Natacha Devillers,Cheryl Eatock,Max Fuhrmann,Jens Geibel,Dylan Mohan Gray,Rumana Gray,Bill James,Christopher Kulikowski,Lisa Kussner,Jim O Grady,Anup Poddar,Meryl Schutte,David Taylor,Michael Williams,Sisi Wu
MetacriticRating	29
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Paula Antil,Paul Barry,Jan Bernotat,Laura Hunter,Mac Mbah,Andrew Mckenzie,Jason Moskie,Lynsey Muir,Philip Nee Nee,Sandile Ntobela,Amanda Petura,Sarah Rayner,Jingyi Shao,Sam Smith,Samuel A. Smith,Fiona Winning
Art Department	Sandra Baier,John Beatty,Amber Boorman,Shannon Courte,Peter Cummings,Colin J. Czarnecki,Sipho Dandala,Sunette Du Plessis,Robert J. Dugdale,Antonio Germinario,Lara Gildenhuys,Lisa Godwin,Ariane Haase,Kate Hilson,Holger Isenberg,Wei Jing,Todd Keller,Irvin Kone,Garrow Kruger,Anthony Langkilde,François Lelord,Meng Lingzhou,Guanjun Lu,Kate McColgan,Jason McConnell,Kagiso Merewotlhe,Abdurrah Mthabo Metsing,Thabiso David Mohapi,Garry Moore,Joy Munt,Lauren Nell,Johannes Reichelt-Hansen,Raphaele Reineke,Lawra Robertson,Emilia Roux,Hannah Rowan,Danny Ryan,Michael Schroll,Olly Steele,Augustine Taylor,Philipp Wandrey,Maggie Wilson,Samantha Wohlwend,Renata Zaleska
Sound Department	Felix Andriessens,Alexej Ashkenazy,Riza Aydin,Adrian Baumeister,Florian Beck,Maximilian Benjamin,Alexander Beyer,Simon Bright,Colette D. Dahanne,Jesse Ehredt,Rebekka Garrido,Michael Hough,Christian Lehmler,Tim Limer,Tumelo Maesela,Dash Mason-Malik,John Midgley,Pascal Morgan,Sebastian Morsch,Michael Moser,Mark Noda,Carsten Richter,Markus Stemler,Martin Steyer,André Stiebe,Marcus Sujata,Sebastian Türk,Michael Vetter,Hanse Warns,David Ziegler
Special Effects by	Kevin Bitters,Alex Burdett,Terence J. Cox,Mario Duthie,Mark Mentiply,Gwyn E. Shipman
Visual Effects by	Matthias Albrecht,Maren Dolzmann,Alexandra Fried,Ricardo José Rodrigues Fugueiredo,Sebastian Göhs,Markus Hauf,Stefan Kessner,Julia Kietzmann,Tim Markgraf,Jan Meckes,Thomas Ramin,Max Stolzenberg,Christoph Struber,Robert Tomala,Ron Turner
Stunts	Scott J. Ateah,Dan Hirst,Glenn Marks,Stanzin Norbu,Owen Walstrom,He Wei
Camera and Electrical Department	Mohammed Akhtar,Ed Araquel,Ludwe Balintulo,Rovin Basi,Amrit Bawa,Alex Bender,Thomas Berz,Bastian Bohner,Paul Brewster,Chris Cavanagh,Julian Chapdelaine,Ian Coffey,Cody Cusinko,Nicholas Dent,Hongwei Diao,Jabu Dlamini,Marian Engel,Tyler Field,Niklas Fischer,Ray Geldenhuys,Spiro Grant,Chris Griffin,Shao Haifeng,Longfu Hei,Danny Ho,Kyle Hou,Kieran Humphries,Gaelle Jego,Justin Johns,Devin Kaczmarski,Tom Kaczmarski,Christian Klehr,Jan Klompje,Justin Lesch,Jim Lester,Mo Lesunyane,Jinlong Liu,Oliver Loncraine,David Lourie,Iain MacKay,Stephen Maier,Evelyn Makgata,Fenghua Mao,Saied Marcondes,Dave McLean,Li Mengnan,Mark Meyer,Guanghai Mo,Jilin Mo,Collin Morrison,Dan Morrison,Dan Morrison,Shane Nasmith,Khathu Ndlovu,Jakob Neumeier,Steven Ngalo,Brian Nkosi,Nicholas Oja,Quincy Paglaro,Guy Paterson,Alex Payne,Andrew Pedley,Ryan Perier,Kyle Pigeau,Rick Podd,Keshav Prakash,Dietmar Raiff,Grant Antony Rowe,Cody Rusinko,Salomon Saade,David Savinkoff,Dean Schwingboth,Ian Seabrook,Mathias Seitz,Chandra Sekhar,Iqbal Shaikh,Wahid Shaikh,Keith Sherril,Keith Sherritt,Keith Skerrit,Peter Smith,Kat Spencer,Trevor Steeves,Michael Swan,Raydawn Tilley,Derek Ueckermann,Kieran Waites,Charlie Wall,Jeffrey Weil,Steve Whitford,Brodie Wilkinson,Tyler Woeste,Andy Woodcock,Adriene Wyse,Terry Yan,Tian Yuan
Casting Department	Iris B.,Blake Banbury,Amanda Bartley,Bonnie Lee Bouman,Urvashi Chugani,James Forsyth,Eunice Gwabe,Ed Hardy,Vanessa Liebenberg,Dave T. Nall,Lisa Overy,Edward D. Rea,Matthew Tingey,Wang Wenxiang,Shane West,Lisa Zagoria
Keywords	mysterious chinese woman,africa,held at gunpoint,character says you go fuck yourself,car theft
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Tshepo Baloyi,Lindsey Bundschuh,Joana Casado,Patricia Hargreaves,Lindy Hemming,Susan McGillvrey,Aggie Mokwena,Ntombi Zandile Mokwena,Renate Schulz,Zureta Schulz,Hansie Sedibe,Debbie Tallman,Titi Tang,Claudia Torsiello,Sandra Watson,Tamsin Wright,Shelley Zabel,Angelina Zhao
Editorial Department	Matthias Albrecht,Markus Bauerle,Ivar Beer,Laura G. Chirinos,Stratton Farrar,Sebastian Göhs,Toska Hartmann,Andreas Helm,Heike Ipfling,Andrea Jacob,Kerstin Kellner,Ansgar Krützmann,Ute Lingner,Morten McAdams,Stefan Müller,Adam Nazarenko
Location Management	Mike Atwater,Eric Beaupre,Anne-Cécile Boulais,Anna Braumberger,A.J. Cattapan,Erin Dixon,Dan Ferrara,Katie Gallant,Meredith Garstin,Michael Gazetas,Jens Geibel,Peter D. George,Andrew Thomas Hopkins,Keith Humell,Angela Jeffery,Plamena Koutzarova,Marla Kozak,Zoe La Liberte,Paul Lougheed,Carlos Loza,Tony Lu,Tim Matheson,Hanna Menon,Keli Moore,George D. Oopal,Tao Ran,Mike Reimer,Shane Scott,Herman Silva,Steve Stiller,Lydia Strojin,Elycia Tammpere,Owen Thomas,Hayley Vickers,Adam Webb,Chris Webb,Mark Wilson,Anthony Wittrock,Qing Zhang
Music Department	Scoring Stage Babelsberg,Adrian Baumeister,Matt Biffa,Mary-Cate Byrne,Falko Duczmal,Jonathan Feurich,Henning Fuchs,Peter Fuchs,Dan Mangan,Nora Mullally,Paul Rabjohns,Lance Soler,Colin Stewart,Bernd Wefelmeyer,Jesse Zubot
Script and Continuity Department	Robert Brinkschulte,Susanna David,Patti Henderson,Norbert Maass,Glenn Marks
Transportation Department	Reese Alexander,Gordon Alyward,Anochuk,Ludwe Balintulo,Bishop Bluin,Bob Chase,Wenyou Chen,Yugui Chen,Stephen Cholakis,Fred Davies,Jimmy Davies,Walter Dumonceaux,David Dunn,Jun Feng,Maocheng Feng,James Ferrara,Robert Fiveash,Gang Guo,Ryan Hammerquist,Yonglin Han,Louie Hausner,Daren Holt,Peter Holt,Hasan Huseyin,Mick Joslyn,Tk Khampepe,Bruno Kiala,Robin King,Garrow Kruger,Long Gen Lai,Jianglin Li,Jun Li,Vusi Mabaso,Patrick Makhuvele,Zuko Manqina,Darryl Martin,Stuart Martin,Richard Mayencourt,Billy McRobbie,Abdurrahimm Thabo Metsing,Michael Middleton,Pierre Miranda,Kholwani Mkhawanazi,Aggie Mokwena,Khathu Ndlovu,Sandile Ngcobo,Norbu,Ernest Nti,John Ott,Walter Pemlacy,Jianping Qiu,Garry Radons,David Rosenbaum,David Rosenbaum,Danny Ryan,Bart Sample,Rebecca Sands,Reiner Schallish,Hendrik Sebulela,Shambhu Shankar,Jiaman Shen,Rodney Small,Liu Smuqino,Morris Tancredi,Jianping Tang,Alfred Tshabalala,Richard Ushe,Gary Van Denberg,Adam Wakeham,Jiabiao Wang,Jianwei Wang,Longgen Wang,Yong Wei,Changjiang Xiao,Kang Xiao,Mingchan Yang,Xiangping Yang,Zhenghua Yao,Nongji Yuan,Chuanchuan Zhang,Fugen Zhang,Jing Zhang,Yong Zhang,Ru Lou Zhu
Additional Crew	Uli Adomat,Shamsan Anders,Reno Antoniades,Mike Atwater,Daisy Baldry,Begoña Ballester-Olmos,Zhou Baojian,Debera Barager,Natalie Beer,Dorothe Beinemeier,Julie Bezuidenhout,Anthony Bloom,Yves Boczek,Dave Booys,Marc Borja,Anne-Cécile Boulais,Robert Brinkschulte,Vicky Brooker,Gero Brugmann,Leah Buchanan,Corine Buffel,Grant Butler,Sandra Cinelli,Lisa Ciniglio,James Cleave,John Crowther,Erin Dixon,Ian Doig,Xia Dong,Keith Dunkerley,David Lee Dunn,Karyn Edwards,Anne Engel,Thobelani Faku,Claire Finbow,Daryl Francis,Regina Frankenberger,Katie Gallant,Rochan Ganu,Rebekka Garrido,Meredith Garstin,Christian Gill,Gabriel Henrique Gonzalez,Thorsten Gottschalk,Renate Graichen,Dylan Mohan Gray,Nic Grigg,Rene Grobler,Marc Hansell,Yiwei Hao,Iona Harris,Carol Heij,Anne Hofmann,Gerhard Horhager,Dingming Hu,Avery Huang,Betsy Huang,Laureen Hui,Laura Hunter,Roelof Jackson,Lorraine Jamison,Hu Jian,Ge Jin,Anja Karg,Qing Ke,Gift Khumalo,Tine Kollmar,Astrid Krebs,Zenon Kristen,Sandra Kunack,Lerlynn Landsman,Valerie Legrain-Doussau,Frank Lehmann,Jessie Li,Friederike Linge,Yi Liu,Dong Liuyu,Ray MacLean,Grace MacLeod,Themba Madonsela,Wolrige Mahon,Emma Mallett,Lebo Matila,Josiah Matsefe,Jim McKeown,Hanna Menon,Christos Michaels,Amy Miller,Mr. Monze,Michael Moyo,Edwin Mukong,Gigi Neal,Daniel Nyavikondo,Sarah O Connell,Deirdre O Hara,Allison Palmer,Andreas Pense,Evelin Penttilä,Monica Perez,Heidi Peters,Freya Pinsent,Anup Poddar,Dirk Poppendieck,Andrew Powell,Song Qi,Reuben Rahube,Amy Rain,Christine Rau,James Reid,Matti Reissig,Lawra Robertson,Stanzin Sanjay,Brodi-Jo Scalise,Michael Schmetz,Eva B. Schmieg,Mary-Beth Schwalm,Eve Schwender,Angela Scurrah,Raham Moleko Shabalala,Thami Shabangu,Jingyi Shao,Ryan Senzeni Sibu,Virginie Simon,Susan Sojka,Christopher Spencer,Lydia Strojin,Tanglu,Todd Thomas,Sofie Thorner-Andersen,Clement Twala,Rudi Van As,Rolette Van Wyk,Nikki Vaughan,Amanda Verhagen,Cindy Villa,Wangou,David Wicht,Jona Wirbeleit,Anthony Wittrock,Tomas Wittrup,Tan Xiaohua,Tang Ying,Andrew Jack,Harro von Have
Thanks	Carter Cohn,Elizabeth Dench,Keith Dunkerley,Craig A. Emanuel,Rebekka Garrido,Tyler Goeckner-Zoeller,Dave Grohl,Mark Holder,Jerome Lewis,Lindsay McCracken,Christoph Ott,Susanne Preissler,Michael Reuter,Mike Romo,Derek Rose,Colin Stewart,Susan Stroud,Alice Temperley,Sue Trutter,William F. White
Genres	Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Companies	Egoli Tossell Pictures, Film Afrika Worldwide, Construction Film
Countries	Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Languages	English, French, German
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	6.9
ImDbRatingVotes	48476
MetacriticRating	29
Keywords	mysterious chinese woman,africa,held at gunpoint,character says you go fuck yourself,car theft