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Cast:Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale,Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff.
Director: Frank Coraci.
Writers: Steve Koren, Mark O’Keefe.
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Adam Sandler plays Michael Newman, an architect who what a promotion so bad that he does almost anything for his boss (David Hasselhoff) and puts everything else second including his family.  One night he’s looking for a new universal remote control and ends up in Bed,Bath and Beyond.  There he meets Morty (Christopher Walken) who gives him a new remote control along with some advise.

Later when trying out the remote control Michael finds out that he can control his enviroment and his life with the remote control.  He than decides to fast forward to the day of his promotion.  After that things start to change dramatically in Michaels life and it’s not clear who is in control, Michael or the remote control?

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Trivia Provided by The Internet Movie Database:

• Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer of The Cranberries is the singer who sings “Linger” at Ben’s wedding.
• Lauren Graham was offered the part of Donna Newman but declined the offer.
• Drew Barrymore was initially cast as Donna Newman but due to various reasons could not do the film.
• When Michael visits Ben’s office, the water that Ben gives Michael is VOSS sparkling artesian water from Norway.
• When Michael revisits his first kiss, Janine is wearing a Bart Simpson T-Shirt. Michael’s mother, Trudy, is played by Julie Kavner, who is the voice of Marge Simpson in “The Simpsons” (1989).
• The Newmans’ next door neighbors are the O’Doyles. This is a reference to the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison (1995), where throughout the grades Billy is completing, the family’s catch phrase is “O’Doyle rules!” In “Click,” Kevin O’Doyle always boasts about his family and himself having high-tech, state-of-the-art gadgets and electronics.
• Director Cameo: [Frank Coraci] the male nurse who attempts to sedate Michael in the hospital but sedates himself instead.
• As an in-joke, the names of some of the crew members are visible on a few headstones at the graveyard scene near the end of the film.
• At Ben’s wedding in the future, the Freedom Tower can be seen in the NYC skyline (except there are two towers) where the World Trade Center once stood.
• Panavision Inc. listed this feature as the second official feature to use the Genesis Digital Camera System after Superman Returns (2006). Dean Semler would use this system in his subsequent features Apocalypto (2006) and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007).
• Eric Lamensoff is the guy who gets Ammer’s job when he moves to Morocco, and then kills himself ten years later. This is an homage to another Adam Sandler movie, The Wedding Singer (1998). In The Wedding Singer, Eric Lamensoff is the guy who Robbie and Julia are talking about with Fey, the photographer. He is the one to whom Fey “gave that price”.
• In the lake scene, Adam Sandler’s character reminisces his childhood at Lake Winnipesaukee. Winnipesaukee is approximately 50 miles north of Manchester, New Hampshire; where Sandler grew up.
• The film’s premise was originated from a joke by writer Steve Koren. It was only upon a suggestion of turning into a feature, by the girlfriend of co-writer Mark O’Keefe, that the project got started off the ground.
• Michael Newman’s (Adam Sandler) home (when he seems himself in the future) is the same building used as Mel’s (Jon Lovitz) home in The Benchwarmers (2006).
• The futuristic car that Michael Newman drives to his house when he first realizes he is CEO of the Company, is the Cadillac Sixteen, a concept car.
• The little girl at the lakeside during young Michael’s flashback is Kate Beckinsale’s daughter, Lily Mo Sheen.
• Michael passes on a favor from Mr. Ammer, to which Mr. Ammer replies, “I’ll put Swardson on it.” Nick Swardson is a friend of Adam Sandler, appearing on Sandler’s most recent comedy album, “Shh… Don’t Tell” (2004). Swardson is also the Bed, Bath & Beyond Guy who asks Michael to be his friend.
• Christopher Walken dances in the film, as is his trademark.
• The coin trick that Henry Winkler does in the movie is something he does in real life. During public appearances, he will often do the trick for children.
• Alan Silvestri was attached as the film’s composer, but he left the project in late March 2006 due to “creative differences”.
• In the future scene, Michael is driving a Cadillac Sixteen, a concept car that was unveiled in 2003.