The architect Michael Newman has a typical middle-class family with his
lovely and gorgeous wife Donna and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and
a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under
stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in
his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues.
When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal
remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty
that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe.
Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own
life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile
parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his
life he lately concludes that the family comes first.
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his
boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time
with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life.
This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy
sales clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do
anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to
be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also
skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes
horribly wrong.
Michael Newman is a loving father and husband, but he's got an office and a
career he sees more often than his own family. To only make matters worse
is a boss who takes everything for granted, including advantage of Michael
by dangling a promotion in front of his face. But when one late night trip
to a Bed, Bath and Beyond store for a new remote control, Michael finds
himself in the possession of a new kind of remote control, developed by an
eccentric inventor. A remote control so significant that it allows Michael
to be able to fast forward, rewind, pause and practically control all the
events in his life. So much to an extent that it becomes a luxury for the
overworked man who finally gets some quality time with his family and his
life. But not everything lasts forever as Michael is about to find out,
when the remote control begins to malfunction, causing Michael to deal with
the consequences.
On the surface, Michael Newman seems to have it all, yet with all the
demands forced upon him by his ungrateful boss Ammer, Michael finds that
setting aside time to spend with his loving wife, Donna, and two
picture-perfect children, Ben and Samantha, has grown increasingly
difficult. When a frustrating bout with the television remote leads the
overworked husband and father to a nearby Bed, Bath & Beyond in search of a
universal remote with the power to control all of his electronic devices, a
curious peek into the back room leads Michael into the company of eccentric
employee and talented inventor Morty. It seems that Morty has created a
device that will not only allow Michael complete control over his
television and stereo, but his entire life as well. As Michael discovers
that the remarkable device has the power to muffle the barks of the family
dog, zoom himself past an irritating quarrel with his wife, and even allow
him to travel back and forth through time to different points in his life,
the rush of being able to skip straight to the good parts in life soon
leaves him feeling as if he's missing out on the total experience. Only
when Michael begins to realize that the he has lost control of his life and
the remote is now programming him does he finally learn that life is as
much about the moments he'd rather forget as it is the moments he will
always remember.
Michael Newman is a workaholic architect working hard to keep his wife and
kids happy. One night, Michael is on the road in search of an open store
that may sell him a universal remote control to make his life easier. At
the Bed, Bath, & Beyond store, Michael meets Morty, the inventor of a very
advanced piece of technology, a remote control that not only controls his
TV, but controls his whole LIFE!!! Now that he's using the remote on a
regular basis, his work-life and family-life are finally in balance, he's
trying harder than he ever imagined to spend more time with his family.
Now, frustrated that his stuck up boss hasn't made him partner at his
construction firm yet, he uses the remote to fast-forward through his life
until his promotion. What he doesn't realize is that he has skipped through
a whole year. The remote is now powered by its memory, and starts to
fast-forward through crucial moments in his life, including arguments,
foreplay, traffic, and, worst of all, promotions at his job. One year turns
into ten years and than another six years.
Michael Newman seems to have a perfect life- a beautiful wife, two small
children, and a job with great potential. But as his jerky boss passes
Michael up for promotion after promotion, Michael becomes fed up, and
wishes he could find a way to just, oh, skip through the hard parts in
life. He gets exactly that -and much, much more- when he stumbles upon the
Beyond section of a Bed, Bath, and Beyond in search of a universal remote.
But as it turns out, the remote controls, well, the entire universe! At
first this seems a blessing, but as the remote begins to program itself
Michael finds his life skipping by, sometimes a few months, sometimes
years. Will he be able to get his life back before its entirely gone?
