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Click

Film poster for Click
Directed by Frank Coraci
Produced by Jack Giarraputo
Adam Sandler
Written by Mark O'Keefe,
Steve Koren
Starring Adam Sandler
Kate Beckinsale
Christopher Walken
Henry Winkler
Julie Kavner
and
David Hasselhoff
Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of Australia June 22, 2006
Flag of the United States June 23, 2006
Flag of the United Kingdom Flag of Ireland September 28, 2006
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Running time 107 minutes
Language (English)
Budget US$70,000,000
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile
Ratings
Netherlands:  6
United Kingdom:  12
United States:  PG-13 saint_Africa=13L

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Click is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy/drama/science fiction/fantasy film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe. Click tells the story of Michael Newman (Adam Sandler), an overworked architect so wrapped up in his job because of his boss John Ammer (David Hasselhoff) that his family is forced to take the backseat. He gets a "universal remote" from an eccentric engineer named Morty (Christopher Walken), and finds he can literally control the universe around him. It began filming in late-2005 and was finished by early-2006. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup.

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[edit] Synopsis

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Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) just wants to be promoted. To achieve this, he inevitably keeps missing on important events of his family, like plans to go camping on July 4. One night, after arguing with Donna and having trouble locating his TV remote control, he gets angry and drives to try to find a universal remote control. Finding most stores closed, he enters the still open Bed, Bath and Beyond. After dropping on a display bed for a second, he makes his way to the "Beyond" section, where he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), an eccentric inventor. Morty takes Michael to the "Way Beyond" storeroom and gives him a one-of-a-kind universal remote control, which Michael believes to be an ordinary remote. He is warned by Morty that it is "non-returnable."

To Michael's amazement, he finds out that the remote is literally universal: it controls the universe, and interprets his wishes, even learning to anticipate them. It allows him to alter time and reality. After having some fun with it, he decides to do something serious and fast-forwards to the promotion that he thought to be three months away. When he fast-forwards, fourteen months go by instead. His boss is now dating his wife's friend, Janine, and he and Donna are in marriage therapy. Apparently, the remote is smart, and self-programming based on past experiences and is automatically programmed to skip or fast-forward through sickness, sexual intercourse, showering, traffic, arguments with Donna, and promotions. In each case, he is alive but on "autopilot" during the interim, so he has no conscious experience of what happened. When he figures out that is the way the remote has been programmed, he tries to destroy it, but it keeps regenerating.

Michael goes to work by bicycle, wearing his bathrobe to avoid automatically fast-forwarding through traffic or showering. When he arrives at work on his first day as his ex-boss's business partner, Ammer queries his lax dress-code and is convinced by his explanation. Ammer calls him a revolutionary man and says "You might even be CEO of this company some day." After that, he winds up being fast-forwarded ten years to the year 2017, where he finds drastic changes have happened in his life: Donna has divorced him and married Ben's former swimming instructor Bill; he's become grossly overweight from a constant junk food diet; and, on arriving at his home, he finds Ben has followed his example and started gaining weight too, while Samantha is a skimpily dressed party girl type. Later, he and Donna begin to argue, so Michael's remote then fast-forwards him another six years into the future, to the year 2023, but not before Michael is knocked unconscious by the dog which has replaced his previous pet which had replaced their original dog. Having had a medical check because of his concussion and having been diagnosed with cancer, he is fast forwarded through a period of serious sickness. When he wakes to consciousness after his sickness, he is no longer fat, but flabby after liposuction, which he underwent because, as Donna points out, he was the only man ever to actually gain weight on chemotherapy. Later, he finds out that his son Ben has lost weight and is now taking over his father's work. His son informs him that Michael's father Ted died in 2022 during his sickness. He fast forwards to stand at his father's gravestone and rewinds to when they last met, and finds he acted very rudely to his father, with a hurtful remark about how he always knew the secret of the old man's lifelong parlor trick, which was seemingly biting off a piece of a coin and (somehow) putting it back on. Michael is incredibly saddened at his actions and ends up back at his father's grave where Morty shows up. Morty then says he is sorry to have taken Michael's father's life and Morty reveals his true identity: the Angel of Death.

Michael then fast forwards seven years into the future, to arrive at Ben's wedding in 2030. There he hears Samantha calling Bill "Dad" and is overcome with a heart attack. He passes out with his children rushing to help him and awakens – still in 2030 – in a hospital, with his kids by his side. Ben informs him that his and his wife Julie's own honeymoon will have to take a backseat until his situation at work is under control. Michael immediately becomes fearful of his son going down the same path as himself. He tears himself off his lifesaving instruments (despite Morty's warnings) and walks out to catch up with and warn Ben of the possible consequences should he continue to prioritize work over family. However, the strain is too much, and Michael ends up collapsing. He calls out Ben's name 3 times until Ben sees his father lying on the ground and quickly rushes to his side along with his family; surrounded by them, Michael lies dying in the street while it is raining. He struggles for breath and tells Ben that family always comes first and to go on his honeymoon. Michael tells Samantha that he loves her very much. Michael sticks up "the finger" at Bill, then changes it to an O.K. sign. Morty then tells him that the note he wrote for his wife in 2017 is in his pocket and Michael gives his wife the note and she replies through teary eyes, "forever and ever babe"; Michael then dies with Ben lying on his father's chest, crying.

There is then a white flash, and Michael wakes up back on the bed in Bed, Bath and Beyond. He believes it was all just a dream. Michael is ecstatic to be back and drives to his parents' house, tells his dad that he loves him and he wants to know how he does the coin trick, and also wants him and his mother to have dinner with him every day from this moment on. He then goes home, tells Donna, Ben and Samantha he loves them and that they are going on a 4th July camping trip as a family. Michael even bought an apparently female bulldog for Sundance, though the Bulldog turns out to be a male and starts humping the stuffed duck. At the ending of the movie, Michael finds the familiar remote on his kitchen counter, with an attached note from Morty stating "Michael, like I said, good guys need a break. I know you'll do the right thing this time, Love Morty. P.S. Your wife's rockin' body still drives me crazy." This shows that in fact, it was not all a dream, but Morty has rewound Michael's life back to this point to give him another chance. Michael now knows exactly what to do with the remote: he chucks it in the garbage (and this time, it doesn't reappear). Michael understands what he must do (and what he should avoid doing) to have a happy future with his family.

[edit] Remote features

The remote control shown on the movie posters differs from the one as shown in the movie itself. The remote shown in the movie was an ergonomic shape, and had a small round liquid crystal display at the top which animated like an iris of sorts when it was about to display something.

The Click remote.
The Click remote.

The film shows that the remote control’s features include:

Pause
Causes everyone and everything but Michael (and Morty, near the end of the film) to freeze in place. Michael can interact with the physical world while it is paused, manipulating people and objects without observation. Michael also assaults people while they are frozen and they feel a sting when he presses "play" and don't suspect a thing.
Fast forward
Can be used to accelerate the time-frame of the rest of the world, who apparently do not notice this change. When used on Michael’s life, puts him on auto-pilot during the skipped interval.
Rewind
Cannot undo anything, but allows Michael to revisit (without changing) the past. The Michael with the remote control is separate from the Michael in the revisited time period and can walk in and around the revisited scene unnoticed. It is revealed in the graveyard scene that Michael can only rewind to scenes in which he was present at that time.
Volume control
Controls the sound level that the remote holder perceives (so the world does not notice a change, but still reacts to Michael Newman's spontaneous deafness)
Language selection
Options include, but are not limited to English, Spanish and Japanese. One language featured but not used was Pig Latin. Produces a perfect translation, unlike the garbled output of real machine translators. Michael uses this to listen in on a couple of Japanese clients conferring in Japanese and finds out all the flaws in his design.
Color adjustment
Michael experiments with this on his own complexion. He has a bit of fun by changing his skin color to Green, Purple and Yellow (Green being the Hulk, Purple being Barney, and Yellow being Scurvy). Seems to work only with hue (although the saturation increases greatly during his experimentation). Other people notice his "tan."
Aspect ratio selection
Choices are normal, wide and panoramic. He uses this to adjust his boss's size for the sake of humor. The target's voice changes accordingly (wide giving a baritone voice for example).
Main menu
This includes scene selection and bonus features such as a making-of and a running commentary (voiced by James Earl Jones).
Picture in Picture
When the button is pressed, a picture of Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees hitting a two-run home run shows up at the bottom right corner of the screen (only Michael can see this). Whatever shows up on the screen appears according to Michael's will.
Mute
Similar to the volume control, but much faster.
Memory
The remote remembers your actions with the remote and will automatically act according to your previous using of the remote. For example, when Michael tells the remote to fast forward through a cold, the remote remembers this and automatically fast forwards through any sickness.
Slow-motion
Michael uses this feature to slow down time and himself (Michael is the only one who notices the change). In one scene, he sees a sexy woman running on the side walk and uses this control to watch her breasts move slowly.
Delete
This feature is seen on the cover of the movie. Michael does not use this feature in the film.

[edit] Cast

  • Katheryn Cain .... Kirsten
  • Frank Coraci .... Male nurse
  • Tim Herlihy .... Doctor
  • Ireesha .... Jogger
  • Emilio Cast .... Michael in 1976
  • Willy Goldstein .... Lakeside camp boy
  • Lily Mo Sheen .... Lakeside camp girl
  • Carolyn Hennesy .... Kathy O'Doyle
  • Elena Patten, Cheyenne Dean .... Samantha's friends
  • Elliott Cho .... Ping Woo
  • Alan Au .... Ping Woo's father
  • Ryan Keiser, Christopher Guitierrez, Nickole Reyes,
    Brianna Davis, Robert James .... Firecracker teens
  • Jenae Altschwager .... Judy
  • Manish Goyal, Marco Kanlian, Ahmad Jordan,
    Jamil N. Hodaly, Alireza Tanbakoochi .... Habeeboo entourage
  • John D. Pagano .... Bandleader
  • Dolores O'Riordan .... Singer
  • Sally Insul .... Aunt Peggy
  • Gary Holm .... Body double - Fat Michael
  • Rob Schneider* .... Prince Habeeboo
  • James Earl Jones* .... 'Main Menu' commentary narrator
  • Terry Crews* .... Man in Chevrolet Corvette C6 singing "Working For the Weekend"

* Not credited on-screen.

[edit] Box office

As of June 3, 2007, Click has grossed US$137,355,633 in the USA and US$100,231,533 outside the USA, with a total gross of US$237,587,166.

[edit] Awards and Nominations

[edit] References to other media

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  • This movie has a similar plot and even the same title as a Goosebumps short story by R.L. Stine. The short story was made into one of the episodes of the TV Series. The character played by Christopher Walken is very similar to one on the book, and he treats the protagonist in the same manner. Also, the main character is similarly punished by misusing the remote.
  • In an episode of Weird Science entitled "Universal Remote", the main characters are also given a "universal remote" resulting in a very similar turn of events.
  • There is an old short story called "The Winter Reflection" that parallels the story completely.
  • In an episode of Garfield and Friends Garfield and Odie obtain a remote that controls everything.
  • The O'Doyle family in the movie is a reference to the family in Billy Madison.
  • In the flashback to Michael and Donna's first kiss, Janine is wearing a Bart Simpson T-shirt. This would have to mean their first kiss took place in at least the early-1990s as The Simpsons products had yet to be marketed before, and also because Michael and Donna's song, "Linger" by The Cranberries, was released in 1993. Also, a Metallica poster is seen in the background. That particular font type for the logo wasn't used until the Load album came out meaning their first kiss must have happened in or after 1995. Another coincidence is that Julie Kavner is the also the voice of Marge on The Simpsons.
  • Also, one bar patron is shown wearing a Misfits patch on his jacket.
  • In the same flashback, Michael wears a J. Geils Band T-shirt. Sandler sang one of their songs ("Love Stinks") in The Wedding Singer.
  • Michael changes the color of his skin from Skurvy Yellow to Hulk then to Barney.
  • When Michael first uses the menu function on the remote, the theme song from The Price is Right can be heard. Adam Sandler had previously had a memorable fight scene with The Price is Right host Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore as well as a cameo appearance on the show in 1996. Other game show theme songs are in the background during the menu function, including Family Feud and The $25,000 Pyramid.
  • There is scene in the Family Guy episode, "North by North Quahog" where Peter Griffin goes to the "Beyond" section of Bed, Bath and Beyond. However, as mentioned in the commentary on the DVD, the script for this movie was written at least a year before that episode of Family Guy aired.
  • The song Terry Crews is singing in the traffic scene where Michael turns down his voice is "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy.
  • After Michael's fast forward to his promotion, his children prefer to watch CSI over Dragon Tales, which was said to be extremely popular among younger children despite the content.
  • When Michael drives from his office to his old home in 2017, he can be seen driving the concept,the Cadillac Sixteen, the news on the car radio mentions both Britney Spears and Michael Jackson. According to the reports, Britney has given birth to her twenty-third baby, and that Kevin Federline (they were still married when the film was released), a grandfather at this point, is now considering getting a job. Also, Michael Jackson, who was the first person to clone himself, is now suing himself for molesting himself.
  • Jennifer Coolidge's character is called Janine, a reference to her iconic character Janine Stifler in the American Pie films.


[edit] It's a Wonderful Life

This film was deemed by critics a "21st Century remake of It's a Wonderful Life". That would make this film Adam Sandler's second remake of a Frank Capra film, his first being Mr. Deeds.

[edit] Trivia

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  • Rob Schneider makes a cameo as Prince Habeeboo (in makeup) in the beginning of the movie. Schneider appears in most of Sandler's films and vice versa. In a deleted scene from the DVD, Prince Habeeboo says "you can do it," a phrase often said by Schneider in cameo appearances in other Adam Sandler films. It was cut, presumably due to time constraints.
  • The camping trip was at Lake Winnipesaukee (though it was filmed in northern California). This is an actual lake in New Hampshire. Adam Sandler was raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. Lake Winnipesaukee is also referenced in Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song."
  • The film was shot using the high-definition Genesis (Panavision) camera.
  • Drew Barrymore was originally set to play the role of Donna Newman, but later dropped out because of a scheduling conflict and because she had already worked with Adam Sandler twice. Lauren Graham was also offered the role, but turned it down because she was going to shoot the sixth season of Gilmore Girls during the time that Click was going to go into production.
  • The wig that Sandler wears during the flashback scene of Michael's first kiss with Donna is a reference to Sandler's character Robbie Hart from the 1998 classic comedy "The Wedding Singer."
  • Morty's name sounds and is written almost like the word "Death" on Latin-derived idioms - notably Portuguese and Italian ("Morte"), Romanian ("Moarte") and French ("Mort"), with Spanish sharing a mild resemblance ("Muerte").
  • This is the second film in which Christopher Walken has portrayed the Angel of Death, the first being the 1995 film, The Prophecy. He also portrayed the Angel of Death (that could also show flashbacks) in Madonna's music video for the song "Bad Girl".
  • Eric Lamonsoff, an off-screen character referenced in this and other Sandler films, was Adam Sandler's college roommate.
  • The name of the film shares its name with a Goosebumps episode based on similar themes.
  • This is the second Adam Sandler film featuring a bully with the surname O'Doyle. The first is "Billy Madison".
  • Sandler's on-screen name, Michael Newman, is a reference to David Hasslehoff's old costar Michael Newman in Baywatch.
  • The singer at Ben's wedding in 2030 was the lead singer of the Cranberries in real life, who ironically is the band that sang Michael and Donna's song Linger.
  • Terry Crews is the only black person in the whole film.

[edit] Music

Rupert Gregson-Williams composed the film score.

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[edit] Reception

Preceded by
Cars		 Box office number-one films of 2006 (USA)
June 30, 2006		 Succeeded by
Superman Returns
v • d • e
Films directed by Frank Coraci

Murdered Innocence (1995) • The Wedding Singer (1998) • The Waterboy (1998) • Around the World in 80 Days (2004) • Click (2006) • Demolition (2009) • Hawaiian Dick (2009)