建筑师迈可·纽曼（亚当·桑德勒 饰）每天都过着忙碌的生活。事业有成的他纵使有个美满的家庭，美丽贤惠的妻子唐娜（凯特·贝金赛尔 饰），可爱的一对儿女，他总是没时间好好享受天伦之乐，为了晋升而逃避甚至忘记了与家人们的约定。 迈可正寻找一个万能遥控器，一个神秘身份的老板莫蒂（ 克里斯托弗·沃肯 饰）给了他一个。当迈可回到家尝试使用后才发觉了这个遥控的神奇功能：他可以利用这个遥控器控制自己的生活时间，这对他来说是件极其兴奋的事情，他可以逃过那些繁琐的事，随心所欲到达自己想要的时段。 直到有一天，这个遥控器不再受他的控制了，他的生活变得乱七八糟，时间迅速向前走，而他也错过了很多重要的事情：他迅速的成为公司的高层、他的妻子离开了他与别人结婚、父亲逝世、儿子结婚等等，他才后悔自己故意错过的东西，而他也来到了弥留之际，他努力要告诫儿子不要重蹈覆辙，多把时间留给家人……

The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.

When his girlfriend Sasha and best friend Elias give hothead Richard a harpoon for his birthday, he wants to try this new toy out right away. So the three of them set out for a day trip on a boat, but suspicion and jealousy soon start to get the upper hand. Before long, the tension has become unbearable. To make matters worse, the boat’s engine fails and then it turns out they left their supplies on shore: a nerve-wracking struggle for survival ensues that spares no one’s secrets – or blood. This post-modern adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe in which three shipwrecked sailors draw lots to see who has to sacrifice himself as a cannibalistic snack, is a bloodthirsty thriller that leaves sufficient space for laughs. It’s painfully obvious from (nautical) miles away that this triangular relationship is not going to end well.