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Movies that feel likeClick (2006)

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

If you loved Click, the closest films we have are Bruce Almighty (2003), The Mermaid (2016) and Being John Malkovich (1999). All three share Click's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).

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Bruce Almighty
2003 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.8fantasy · comedy

A regular guy handed impossible power, with comic chaos and a moral cost

The difference: Godlike powers over the world, not a remote just for his own life

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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Being John Malkovich
1999 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · drama · fantasy

A fantastical gimmick portal that turns everyday life delightfully strange

The difference: A stranger, headier fantasy about identity, not family regret

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

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The Man from the Future
2011 · dir. Cláudio Torres
★ 7comedy · fantasy · science fiction

Common ground: time travel

The difference: Trades the stillness of Click for an angle of its own

Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.

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Groundhog Day
1993 · dir. Harold Ramis
🍅 93%★ 8romance · fantasy · comedy

Both land dream logic and romance at once

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Click

A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%★ 7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Click does

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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Shallow Hal
2001 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 49%★ 6comedy · fantasy · romance

A magic-tinged comedy where a single gimmick forces real self-reckoning

The difference: A perception-altering hypnosis premise, not a life-skipping remote

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

A magical device rewriting one man's chances at getting life right

The difference: A single romantic do-over loop, not a whole life fast-forwarded

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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Dark Shadows
2012 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 35%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy

A fish-out-of-water fantasy comedy with the same playful, dreamlike tilt

The difference: A vampire-curse gothic comedy, no time-skipping remote or family stakes

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Both lean on play more than on fantasy

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Blended
2014 · dir. Frank Coraci
🍅 15%★ 6.5comedy · romance

The same director's warm, witty comedy about family life going sideways

The difference: A blended-family vacation romcom, no magical time-skipping device

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

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Practical Magic
1998 · dir. Griffin Dunne
🍅 31%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · comedyMax

Dreamlike drama in both cases

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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