Frank Coraci
Cambia la tua vita con un click

To what extent and how far could a human being go to skip the negative and boring events of life and reach the positive and festive ones right away? And what consequences would result from these ''time jumps''? Frank Coraci aims to answer precisely these questions by bringing to the big screen a comedy with Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale. A film that might apparently seem superficial and meaningless but actually hides within it truths such as living despite the negativity and disappointments one may encounter, without trying to bypass them. But as we know, human temptation is capable of surpassing every limit, even the greatest.

So Micheal Newman (Adam Sandler) will be literally attracted by a small remote control offered as a gift by a mysterious man named Morty (Cristopher Walken) that is capable of floating through time to satisfy every desire of the protagonist or even better (?) to return to previous moments to change something that went wrong. So far, it might seem all easy for Micheal, who unknowingly starts to abuse the mysterious object. However, everything has a flaw, and this blue remote, as useful as it may be, starts to automatically skip fragments of the architect's life. He will have less time to spend with his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and kids, who long for a father more attentive to them and less to the stressful work. The worst never ends, and we rapidly reach 2021 when Micheal's father (Henry Winkler) dies of natural causes, and the heartbroken and desperate son tries to go back in time to relive the last time he met his father virtually. He will be disappointed, as besides the discussion between the two, Micheal realizes he never considered his father and his advice. Coraci then jumps over a decade and takes us to 2030: it's Micheal's son's wedding (Jake Hoffman, son of Dustin), and in the midst of the ceremony, the man, now overwhelmed by the power of the remote, is struck by an illness that forces him to the hospital.

How can an object of desire transform into a nightmare and become useful again to give meaning to a man's life? This is all part of the feature film's ending: Micheal will wake up in the store where he made the biggest mistake of his life but fortunately ignores the remote-trap and joyfully runs to his family, a classic American ending!

Commonplace film? NOT AT ALL. It's a film that needs to be understood and, in the right measures, can lead us to reflect: it's good to try to avoid evil but one must do so with one's means and without the help of things that will then turn into traps. In conclusion, I would say that even though it's a film from 2006 and is a comedy, it is worth watching: guaranteed fun for more than an hour and a half and also a good storyline, 8 to Coraci and the actors for the work.