Click (film)

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Click

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Frank Coraci
Produced by Jack Giarraputo
Steve Koren
Mark O'Keefe
Adam Sandler
Written by Mark O'Keefe
Steve Koren
Starring Adam Sandler
Kate Beckinsale
Christopher Walken
Henry Winkler
Julie Kavner
David Hasselhoff
Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cinematography Dean Semler
Editing by Jeff Gourson
Studio Revolution Studios
Happy Madison
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release date(s) Australia
June 22, 2006
United States
June 23, 2006
Running time 107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $70 million
Gross revenue $237,681,299

Click is a 2006 American fantasy-comedy-drama film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe. Click tells the story of Michael Newman, an overworked architect so wrapped up in his job because of his boss John Ammer that his family is forced to take the backseat. He gets a "universal remote" from an eccentric engineer named Morty, 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 Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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Michael Newman is an architect with a wife, Donna, and two children, Ben and Samantha. One night after Michael loses his temper at the amount of remote controls in the house, he goes in search of a universal remote control for his appliances. Finding most stores closed, the store he stops at is Bed Bath & Beyond where he finds a suspicious door with the name "Beyond" above it. He meets Morty, an eccentric inventor who gives him a remote control answering to the description of "universal", warning Michael that it can never be returned.

The Click remote.

To Michael's amazement, he finds out that the remote controls the universe, anticipating and interpreting his wishes. After some initial fun with it, Michael discovers the remote is 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. Michael tries to destroy the remote, but it keeps regenerating.

Thereafter, Michael is put into "autopilot" for ten years until the year 2017, and a further six years until 2023 to discover that Donna has divorced him; Michael himself has become grossly overweight and is diagnosed with cancer. Later, he finds that his father Ted died during Michael's sickness while both were estranged. During Michael's grief, Morty appears and reveals that he is the Angel of Death. Upon hearing this, Michael tries to attack Morty, but is unable to do so owing to Morty's ability of teleportation.

Fearing that Morty is about to attack him, Michael wishes to go to a happy time in his life, and fast forwards seven years into the future. He arrives at Ben's wedding in 2030. Michael is overcome with a popped artery and taken to hospital. He tells his son Ben that family always comes first, and his daughter Samantha that he loves her very much. Morty appears, says it's time to go and fades away as Michael dies with Ben lying on his father's chest, crying.

There is then a white flash, and Michael wakes up in the present day believing his misadventure to have been a dream, he rushes to visit his father, to atone and invite his parents to dine with him every day. He then reassures Donna, Ben, and Samantha of his affection for them. At the end of the movie, Michael finds the familiar remote on his kitchen counter, bearing a 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 the misadventure was not all a dream, but Morty has rewound Michael's life back to this point to give him another chance. Michael throws the remote in the garbage and begins to check his pants to see if the remote regenerates there. Then he starts to enjoy life.

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[edit] Critical reception

Rotten Tomatoes reports that 31% of top critics gave the film a positive review, based on 161 reviews giving it a "Rotten" rating with an average score of 4.7 out of 10. Stating, "This latest Adam Sandler vehicle borrows shamelessly from It's A Wonderful Life and Back To The Future, and fails to produce the necessary laughs that would forgive such imitation." Metacritic gave it a score of 45 out of 100 which indicates "mixed or average reviews"

[edit] Box office

As of June 3, 2007, Click has grossed $137,355,633 in the United States and $100,325,666 elsewhere, with a total gross of $237,681,299.

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Preceded by
Cars		 Box office number-one films of 2006 (USA)
June 30		 Succeeded by
Superman Returns
Preceded by
Children of Men		 Box office number-one films of 2006 (UK)
October 1		 Succeeded by
The Devil Wears Prada
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