Minutiae

In today's corporate world, most people have figured out that balancing career and family is a difficult task. If you want to be CEO of a top insurance firm, you may have to sacrifice your plan of getting married at 23; if you decide you want three kids before you're thirty, you might want to settle into a job that gives you the flexibility to watch them grow up. Because if one thing is abundantly clear in the pursuit of work/family balance, it's that there's very often not enough time in the day for both.

In Click, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) has come to terms with this in his own way. He's an up and coming architect and wants to make partner one day, so he often brings his work home, forgoing time with his family in favor of getting ahead. And though his heart is in the right place - he does it all to make a better life for his family - his gung ho attitude towards work disappoints them. In a vain effort to get some control where he can, he storms out of the house one night in search of a universal remote control, figuring that he should at least be able to figure out a way to rein in the technology and toys that litter his house. He goes to the "Beyond" section of his local Bed, Bath & Beyond, where he runs into Morty (Christopher Walken), a weird clerk who give Michael a remote that will do just what he wants: control everything. Michael soon finds out exactly what "everything" means.

( Walken on Sunshine... )