The saddest Adam Sandler movie for most viewers is Click from 2006, although several of his films have surprisingly sad moments. Click starts as a goofy comedy about a man with a universal remote who can fast-forward through life, but it turns deeply emotional in the second half when he fast-forwards through his children's childhoods, his marriage falling apart, his father's death, and his own lonely death in the rain outside his son's hospital, realizing he wasted his life working. Many viewers report crying during the Bed Bath and Beyond death scene and the final rain scene where he begs his family not to leave him. Other contenders for saddest include Reign Over Me, where Sandler plays a man who lost his family on 9/11 and suffers severe depression and PTSD, which is devastating and not comedic at all. Punch-Drunk Love has a melancholic loneliness, and Funny People deals with mortality and regret. Big Daddy has sad moments about growing up, and The Meyerowitz Stories is bittersweet. But Click is almost universally cited as the saddest because it mixes broad comedy with a gut-wrenching lesson about time, family, and regret that hits close to home for many working parents.
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