Click

    Click
    2006

    Synopsis

    A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

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    Cast

    • Adam SandlerMichael Newman
    • Kate BeckinsaleDonna Newman
    • Christopher WalkenMorty
    • David HasselhoffAmmer
    • Henry WinklerTed
    • Julie KavnerTrudy
    • Sean AstinBill
    • Joseph CastanonBen at 7 years old
    • Jonah HillBen at 17 years old
    • Jake HoffmanBen at 22-30 years old

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Dallas Observer

      Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      There are times when the comedian falls back on his typical shtick, but the film doesn't shy away from the darkness inherent in this kind of story, and it has a heart.
    • 75

      Charlotte Observer

      Last week, the American Film Institute named "It's a Wonderful Life" the most inspiring movie in the history of the English language. The film was initially a flop, but it's now considered so perfect that nobody would dare remake it - under that title. Folks who see Click will have no trouble connecting the dots.
    • 60

      L.A. Weekly

      After an hour of predictably sophomoric antics involving foulmouthed kids, compulsively self-pleasuring canines and the rampant objectification of women, Click turns into a surrealist death dream in which Sandler's masochistic impulses flower onscreen as never before.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      Charlie Kaufman could have made a great movie out of Click, a soupy existential comedy about a "universal remote" that lets a man magically rewind, fast-forward, and pause his life.
    • 50

      Miami Herald

      A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy.
    • 38

      Chicago Tribune

      Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a screenplay about it.
    • 38

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      If the moral of Click is a stop-and-smell-the-roses bromide about how family comes first, the real message of this sappy, potty-mouthed seriocomedy is that a steady diet of Drakes and Hostesses will do you no good.

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