 This is the story of a harried, workaholic, loving father Michael Newman who doesn t have time for his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna and two small children Ben and Samantha, not if he s to impress his ungrateful boss Mr. John Ammer and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, at long last he finally gets the answer to his prayers: a mysterious magical universal remote control that allows him to bypass life s little distractions with increasingly hysterical results. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure.