 KLUTZY comedian Adam Sandler seems to be mellowing of late, and a lot of it has to do with his newfound status as Dad. The 40-year-old New Yorker has been easing up on the goofball comic tone that characterised his rise to Hollywood stardom. And in a major break from his early career, he's also starting to take on more dramatic roles. In his latest role in Click, Adam plays a workaholic father-of-two who thinks his time-management problems are solved when presented with a magical remote control that can fast-forward, and rewind, his life. But like any good filmic hero looking back on his personal life, he realises the importance of spending more time with his family. In reality a perennial problem for the in-demand actor with a six-month-old baby. "I connected to this because when you're shooting a movie you're away from home most of the time," Adam says. "I do feel that looking back at the last 10 years of my life I've been at work more than I've been at home. By the end of this movie I was excited to get home and do the right thing." Fans of Adam's slapstick hits like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison may have trouble coping with their idol exploring the darker side of a character. But Adam hopes they'll come along for the ride. "I think the people who have seen my movies in the past can handle it," he maintains. "We do have jokes and humour in the movie to relax you." The second half gets heavier and there's some tough emotional stuff, Adam admits. The death of Adam's own dad fed into his on-screen relationship with his character's dying father, played by Henry Winkler. "I had a different relationship with my real father than I did in the movie, but I lost my real father a couple of years ago so it was still fresh. "I never thought my own dad was a pain in the ass like my character does. But the actual finding out that your father is sick was easy as an actor to play." | 
