Hector has several Tintin books and posters in his office, and his father also refers to him by his childhood nickname of Tintin. Simon Pegg previously appeared in The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
The second of two 2014 films to feature both Toni Collette and Rosamund Pike, although they do not share the same scene here. The first was A Long Way Down (2014).
Hector uses computers and more specifically Skype several times to videochat with his girlfriend, yet none of the computers he uses seem to be equipped with the necessary camera or microphone that enables his girlfriend to see and hear him.
Professor Coreman: How many of us I wonder can recall that childhood moment when we experienced happiness as a state of being, that single moment of untarnished joy that moment when everything in our world, inside and out was alright, everything was alright.