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In this week's DVD releases, Adam Sandler struggles with professional and domestic discord, while Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan find sweet harmony in ``A Prairie Home Companion.''

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``Click'' (PG-13) HH 1/2 -- Adam Sandler has been trying for the past several years to balance his desire for respectability with his need to please those moviegoers who still scream with laughter when a guy gets kicked in the crotch.

Sandler's artistic indecisiveness continues in ``Click,'' a wildly ambitious story that jumps frantically back and forth between low-brow, gross-out material and sweet sentimentality, eventually hitting most of the notes in between.

Sandler plays Michael Newman, an architect who's exhausted from trying to meet the demands of his smarmy boss (David Hasselhoff) and the domestic needs of his wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale), and their two young children. Enter Christopher Walken as the mysterious Morty, an overly helpful technician who offers Michael a universal remote control that allows the user to edit his or her own life, fast-forwarding through traffic jams and muting such annoyances as whiny, self-pitying friends.

There's enormous potential for humor and heartwarming situations in ``Click,'' although the filmmakers only hit their intended targets about 30 percent of the time. Viewers may exercise their own remote controls to jump directly to ``Click's'' best scenes and quickly skip past the movie's many awkward sections.

-- James Sanford,

Kalamazoo Gazette

``A Prairie Home Companion'' (PG) HHH 1/2 -- It may be called ``A Prairie Home Companion,'' but director Robert Altman's film owes at least as much to his 1975 classic ``Nashville'' as it does to the long-running Garrison Keillor radio show. While ``Prairie'' may not be as complex as ``Nashville'' was, it follows a similar blueprint: Bring together a diverse cast of characters united by a common interest, expose their secret ambitions or fears, or both, and give them a bunch of rousing songs to sing.

Lily Tomlin (a ``Nashville'' alum), Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly and Lindsay Lohan play musicians who've come to perform on what's supposed to be the final installment of ``A Prairie Home Companion.'' The evening is heavy with memories, both sweet and sad.