CLICK - OUTLINE

That famous Adam Sandler movie from the mid 2000s, just with a way more depressing ending. 

Written by Steve Koren & Mark O'keefe

​CLICK – OUTLINE
 

1. MICHAEL’S HOUSE: Meet Michael and his kids,  Samantha and Ben, as he wakes up from an all-nighter on the couch.  Remote control confusion established on page 2. “That’s the ceiling fan, Daddy.” “That’s my race car.” NOTE: Michael has a loving wife, great kids.
   1. Big Problem Established, P.3: “I’ll get to it. It’s just I got a lot of things going on at work and unfortunately work comes first.”
   2. NOTE: Michael is working towards partner, but he’s getting really strung out by it.
   3. ALSO NOTE: This scene sets up that Michael has bad eating habits, but is too harried to deal.
2. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE: The neighbor kid insults Michael’s car. His dad’s car is better. Michael leaves.
3. MICHAEL’S OFFICE: Michael hurries in. He’s late. Traffic. He’s nice to his assistant, but he’s harried.
4. CONFERENCE ROOM: Michael’s pitch for an elegant building is shot down by his clients and his sell-out boss. He’s designing a glorified Hooters.
5. BOSS’ OFFICE: Boss sets up a big pitch he wants Michael on. Michael tries to squirm out for family vacation, but is pressured into the job. He is then pressured into missing his kid’s swim meet that night for a work thing.
6. TOWN POOL: Michael barely gets to Ben’s race in time. He’s not winning lots of dad points.
7. TOWN POOL – LATER: The family tries to bond, but Michael is distracted by a stressful phone call. He freaks out on firecracker teens at the end. He scares everyone. Both his parents and his kids try and fail to connect.
8. BEDROOM: Michael tells wife that he can’t go camping this weekend. He has to work on his pitch. He angrily has another remote control mishap.
   1. Note: “The O’Doyles have a universal remote and we’re gonna have one too!”
9. PARKING LOT:  Michael looks for an open store, looking for a remote. Spots Bed, Bath and Beyond.
10. BED BATH AND BEYOND: Michael asks a presumed employee for help. Gets no help. Then he spots a sign for BEYOND…
11. BEYOND SECTION: Michael meets Morty. Morty pitches him on the Universal Remote.
    1. NOTE: Michael really appreciates that Morty calls him a good guy. “Finally someone noticed.”
12. WAY BEYOND: Michael gets the remote from Morty, with the caveat that it’s not returnable
13.  HOUSE: Michael tries the remote. It works. Donna comes in and makes an issue about his work. He pauses the TV. It pauses HER.  He doesn’t realize what happened…
14.  LATER: Michael discovers he can use the remote to turn the volume of his barking dog down. He brushes it off, “I guess when you combine cough medicine and yodels you get ACID…”
15.  LATER: Michael fast forwards the dog. What’s going on?
16.  THE NEXT MORNING: Donna’s friend is babbling. Michael mutes her. Checking to see if that thing really worked last night. Michael realizes this thing might really work…
17. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE: Michael rushes out. Runs over the annoying neighbor kids’ robot dog.
18. BEYOND SECTION: Michael with Morty, assuming this is a reality show. Michael hits MENU on remote, and sees all the options… It’s like a DVD menu. Michael plays the commentary..
19. AT WORK: Michael and Morty at Michael’s office, last Tuesday… It’s Alec Baldwin commentary of Micahel freaking out b/c his lunch order was wrong
20. BEYOND SECTION: Michael hits the “Making Of” selection…
21. 1968: Mike being conceived.
22. BLACK: Sometime after conception.
23. HOSPITAL ROOM: Mike is born.
24. DVD MENU WORLD: More “discovering powers” stuff. Morty, “It’s simple. Think of a time and a place. Hit rewind. You’re there.”
25.  CAMP SITE, 1976: Michael and his parents. Even then Michael had a keepin’ up with the Jones’ problem, and a thing for twinkies.
26. BEYOND SECTION: Morty sends Michael off with foreboding, “It’s a very powerful device. Use it with caution. And if you have any problems, call me.” Morty hands Michael a card.
27. STREET: Michael is tempted to FF through traffic. He decides not to, reminding himself, “Easy baby, use it with caution.”
28. WORK LOBBY: Michael keeps eyeing the FF button as a stuttering security guard greets him.
29.  ELEVATOR: Michael once again does NOT FF, even though every floor was pushed and he’s trapped with a racist granny.
30.  OFFICE: Mike pauses his boss, yells at him, unpausees and keeps being the whipping boy
31.  FRONT YARD – LATER: Michael pauses the asshole neighbor kid during a game of catch so the kid gets clocked by the baseball
32.  KITCHEN: Michael overwhelmed by crazy kids. Skips chapter.
33.  FRONT DOOR: Mike’s parents arrive. He realizes he can skip chapters.
34.  SEQUENCE OF FROZEN SHOTS: Family is eating dinner, Mike notices son is eating bad like he is, Mike’s dad does his magic trick
35.  BASEMENT: Mike works at his desk, hits play, and it’s all normal speed again. Then he FFs through an argument with his wife, then resumesworking.
36.  BEDROOM: He FFs through foreplay and accidentally skips sex. Then he learns that during dinner he committed to shopping during lunch tomorrow for his dad’s b-day gift.
37.  LATER: Mike calls Morty. Morty explains that mike was on autopilt.
38.  FLASHBACK TO EARLIER: We see Mike on auto-pilot at dinner, agreeing to the gift thing.
39.  BACK TO PRESENT: Mike says he’ll show Morty all the girls he hooked up with back in the day. Turns out they’re not as hot as he remembered.
40.  LATER: Michael FFs until he’s over his cold and “all better.”
41.  BEDROOM – MONDAY: Mike wakes up in a great mood. He missed his cold.  NOTE: This begins Mike starting to have fun and let loose with the technology…
42.  CAR – LATER: Mike ogles a girl as she jogs. She catches him.
43.  MORE CAR: Mike lowers the volume on an annoying sing along driver.
44.  PARKING LOT AT WORK: Mike changes his skin tone with the color controls.
45.  LOBBY: Mike FFs past stuttering guard. Note: Clearly illustrates his changing attitude about the danger of this…
46.  CONFERENCE ROOM: Michael plays with the image and audio settings as his boss talks. Then he hits SAP and it all goes Spanish, closed captioning etc. IMPORTANT: The remote glitches as he tries to turn it off.
47.  DINNER WITH JAPANESE CLIENTS: Not going well. Michael uses remote to eavesdrop and translate convo… Then he saves the pitch using info he learned. He cuts all the details from his plan to maximize revenue in the building… an interesting reflection of what happened in the earlier scene, but now HE is the one selling out.
48.  HOME: Mike gives gifts to the family, happy that he saved the big account. Donna references their first song…
49.  FLASHBACK: Mike remembers the song in the midst of a sweet memory. It’s LINGER. Wife thinks he’s sweet. All is going well.
50.  OFFICE NEXT DAY: Boss says Mike’s not partner JUST YET… More work, then partner.
51.  HOUSE: Mike does the extra work, annoyed. Snaps at wife and kids.
52.  DRIVEWAY:  Michael visited by Morty. Morty warns him of the consequences of FFing up to the partnership, past the busy work. It would be the farthest ahead Mike has skipped…
53.  LATER: Mike’s kids uspet about returning new bikes. He can’t take it. FFs to promotion.
54.  WORK – 1 YEAR LATER: Mike gets promotion. Realizes he lost a whole year.
55.  MARRIAGE COUNSELING: He tries but the scene FFs on its own…
56.  HOME: Mike realizes the scene FFd by itself… Learns about the stuff he missed. Including the dog dying.  But then it FFs again…
57.  BEDROOM: Michael missed sex and it apparently went too quickly.
58.  LIVING ROOM: Morty explains. Remote now works according to Mike’s preferences. Mike tries to get rid of remote, but he can’t drop it.
59.  NEXT MORNING: Mike won’t shower or kiss or argue - - all the stuff that would be FFd through.
60.  BRIDGE: Mike is biking to work. We see he’s doing things he never used to do so he can hae his time back. He didn’t even get dressed.
61.  WORK: Mike gets promoted. FF…
62.  9 YEARS LATER: Mike becomes head of the business. What he always wanted or a nightmare? He’s also in an apartment with strange women and is very fat.
63.  PARKING GARAGE AT APT: Former asshole kid is now his valet at his apt.
64.  SUBURBAN HOME:  Kids and family life is totally different.
65.  BACK YARD: Wife now has new hubby. Morty shows up and explains. Mike did this to himself. FF
66.  6 YEARS LATER: He’s in the hospital. Just recovered from cancer. Just like earlier… he skipped being sick.
67.  WORK: Now it’s his firm. And Ben works for him. He’s skinny now. And he’s putting work first, just like his dad did.  Mike learns his dad died.
68.  CEMETERY: Mike at his dad’s grave. Asks to be taken to the last time he saw his dad.
69.  WORK: Mike’s an asshoel to his dad. Yells at him.
70.  BACK TO CEMETERY: Morty reveals he’s an angel of death. FF effect…
71.  WEDDING: Mike realizes even more stuff he’s missed. It’s still hitting him. It seems hopeless… He has a heart attack.
72.  HOSPITAL: Ben says he’s gonna skip honeymoon to work. Mike follows him outside, risking his life to do so. Morty warns him…
73.  OUTSIDE HOSPITAL: Mike chases his son. Morty chases Mike with a sickle… Michael dies. Gives Donna a note.
74.  BED BATH BEYOND: Mike is back to the moment he entereted to store in the first place. He’s happy.
75.  STOPLIGHT: He’s happy to be waiting. Appreciating the moment.
76.  HOME: Mike comes home and cherishes family.
77.  KITCHEN: There’s a universal remote with a note from Morty… This one is just for the TV.  Morty is there. Mike realizes… THIS IS HEAVEN.  
78.  BACKYARD IN HEAVEN: Mike convo with his dad….
79.  CREDITS: Morty walks into the foreground of credits and looks at them. Then he fast forwards them so they go faster.
80. THE END.

 
 
 
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