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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……。Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a salaried employee like himself who is very ordinary, not particularly talented. The following is his story: In 1949, Eburi gets married to Natsuko. His monthly salary is 8,000 yen and hers 4,000 yen. Therefore, both have to work to support themselves. Eburi has developed a habituIl tendency to pester around when he gets drunk. One year after their marriage, son Shosuke is born. In 1959, Eburi's mother dies in despair of her husband who has become listless due to the several ups and downs of gaining big profits and going bankrupt. His father is still alive and Eburi is enable to find a way to pay his father's debts. He is doubtful if he can make his wife and child happy. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to survive so far, living in one of the houses at the employee housing quarters. He gives the title "The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman" to his story of half novel and half essay style. When it is published, it receives the Naoki Literary Prize (the award given in memory of popular writer Naoki Sanjugo). At a party to celebrate his award, he gets drunk and pesters around. Notes The film is based on a novel written in the style of an essay under the same title by Yamaguchi Hitomi, depicting everyday life of a man categorized as "During-the-war Generation" who spent school days during the war and get married to start new life in the struggling post-war era. "Everyman" in the title means an average salaried employee who makes up an overwhelming majority of the city population in Japan, and "The Elegant Life" indicates sarcasm on betterment of the standard of living of ordinary salaried employees accompanied with Japan's economic growth after only a decade from the destroyed post-war period. As depicted in the film, the author Yamaguchi Hitomi was awarded the Naoki Literature Prize for this story. When he established himself well enough to become independent, he quit working as a salaried employee. Director Okamoto Kihachi and the leading actor Kobayashi Keiju belong to the same generation as the author. Exploiting innovative effects such as inserting animation sequences, the film humorously presents compassion of a middle-aged salaried employee. Kobayashi Keiju, who was originally noted for his excellent portrayal of salaried employee, won the best leading actor award of the Mainichi Film Contest for his superb performance in this picture.。