Architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) leads a busy life every day. Although he has a successful career and a happy family, including his beautiful and virtuous wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and a pair of lovely children, he always has no time to enjoy the joy of family life. He escapes and even forgets his appointment with his family in order to get promoted. Michael is looking for a universal remote control, and a mysterious boss Morty (Christopher Walken) gives him one. When Michael returns home and tries to use it, he discovers the magical function of this remote control: he can use this remote control to control his life time, which is extremely exciting for him. He can escape those tedious things and reach the time he wants at will. Until one day, the remote control was no longer under his control, his life became a mess, time moved forward quickly, and he missed many important things: he quickly became a senior executive of the company, his wife left him and married someone else, his father passed away, his son got married, etc., he regretted what he had missed on purpose, and he was on his deathbed, he tried hard to warn his son not to repeat the same mistakes, to spend more time with his family...