Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the film's moral stated plainly by a man too late to use it, and it lands because Sandler's usual comic bluster is gone. The line is the tearjerker payoff that fans quote sincerely, as a reminder that work can wait.
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In context
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In Click (2006), architect Michael Newman has spent the film using a universal remote to skip through his family life, and he has aged into a sick, regretful man. In a hospital bed in 2029 he hears that his son Ben has postponed his honeymoon for work, exactly the mistake Michael made after his own father's death. He gathers the last of his strength and follows Ben outside. In the car park he collapses, tells Ben that family comes first, and says he loves them before he dies.
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- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: clickClosing hospital scene where Michael tells Ben that family comes firstReference checked
- Wikipedia: Click (2006 film)PlotReference checked
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