ok! new adam sandler film idea. it’s like click, but uhhhh he goes on a generic facebook site (called like Facefacts) and sees a post of a really embarrassing childhood moment. like, super cringe. skateboard to the groin in front of his crush cringe. so he deletes it without thinking.
later he’s hanging out with his childhood friend, who brings up that moment. he tries to shut it down, but the friend is like what are you talking about? that was rad! you did a perfect half cab heel!
he goes home and starts scouring Facefacts to find more cringe to delete. and over the next few days, he starts noticing improvements in his life. people respect him more. he got a promotion. his wife is gone, and in her place is his childhood crush, and she’s hot.
he starts to bask in the joy of being rad. so, discontent with only removing the cringe, he starts deleting more normal posts. they get replaced with rad stuff too.
it turns out that he ended up making a name for himself because of how rad he is. he has a cool job now; he has movie deals in the works. his new wife is gone and he’s now dating a supermodel, who is even hotter.
but also he notices that his friend, who has grown increasingly distant over the past few weeks, is now out of his life entirely. when he tries to reconnect, his friend goes off about how he was always such a cocky and self-absorbed kid.
his friend is not wrong, and in fact, it seems that the people around him who talk about how great he is are only paying lip service. they all can’t stand him either. and the internet HATES him, and yearns for his comeuppance.
in an effort to get back the life he once had, he does the unthinkable: he starts doing cringe. but everybody treats it as a hollow marketing ploy – an attempt at appearing relatable.
he logs onto Facefacts, only to see that he deleted every one of his childhood memories. his page is blank.
his wikipedia (sorry, Peoplepedia) page tells the story of a completely different person, whose life he shares no connection to, yet who he is now expected to be.
since this is an adam sandler film this will inevitably end with him visiting a psychic buscemi and getting his old life back but i do wish we could just let him endure this horror, too famous to go AWOL, too well-regarded for his descent into insanity to be taken seriously.
the name of the movie is Totally Rad, to convey how rad he is (released in japan as Magic John, because the protagonist’s name is john)