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Click
Film poster for Click
Directed byFrank Coraci
Written byMark O'Keefe,
Steve Koren
Produced byJack Giarraputo
Adam Sandler
StarringAdam Sandler
Kate Beckinsale
Christopher Walken
Henry Winkler
Julie Kavner
and
David Hasselhoff
Music byRupert Gregson-Williams
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
Release dates
Australia June 22, 2006
United States June 23, 2006
United Kingdom Republic of Ireland September 29, 2006

Running time
107 minutes
LanguageTemplate:En icon
BudgetUS$70,000,000

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For other uses, see Click.

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 and possibly based on an episode of Goosebumps. 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. Click was released in North America on June 23, 2006 by both Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios. It was also released under Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions.

Synopsis

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, a year goes 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, who had passed away for unexplained reasons. 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 2021 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 popped artery. 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.

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.

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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, such as when he farts in his boss's face.
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.

Cast

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