Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die

A financially desperate couple receives a box with a button on it and now they have twenty-four hours to decide if pushing it, which would grant them one million dollars but also would cause the death of a person they don't know.

[matthewcooper]

The most unbelievable part of this is that the husband works at NASA but they live paycheck to paycheck.

[naejin]

I actually watched one of these movies that were recapped, and sometimes these recaps makes the movie sound better than it actually was, because externalities such as the quality of the acting are isolated.

[PinkSparklyGamer]

Family: lives paycheck to paycheck
Also family: Has a corvette, son in private school (even with the discount), NASA employee as a dad, and lives an overly luxurious life

[PixelPawsss]

I'm unashamed to admit that Dick Burns made me laugh way too much

[ovinedreamer]

This was a short story some years ago, but it was less convoluted. Basically you'd get the chance to press the button. If you don't press it your life continues normally. If you press it you get money and a random person, who you do not know, would die. Upon delivering the money the owner of the box would take it back and would assure you that the next person he gives it to would be someone who you do not know, implying that if the next person presses the button you will die. That's all there was to it.

[Petaurista]

"Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die"
Thanos: "I guess I need autoclicker"

[thebestgamer]

The way Stewart does this, it’s like a test of life, seeing how and what you will do for loved ones.

[liquidrock]

I remember watching this one at the cinema and getting kinda annoyed by how illogical the story was. The characters make two crucial decisions over the course of the story: whether to push the button or not and whether to kill the person who pushed the button or not. However since both decisions are linked the entire crime-and-punishment arc falls apart. Either Cameron Diaz's character was the one who made the choice to kill the previous woman who pushed the button, which would make her husband's choice irrelevant OR it was that woman's husband's choice to kill his wife that made Cameron push the button - which means it wasn't really her choice at all and she shouldn't have been punished for it.

[rodneysan]

The version i saw was much shorter. the wife pushes the button and within a few minutes the guy comes with the payment and collects the box. She asks who died? he replies, “The last person that pressed the button.”

[jcbro]

One thing that I liked a lot is when Stewart picks up the box from the first family he reminds them he will take it to someone “that they don’t know” since that’s the criteria for who dies. Very foreboding.

[scarletpsychowolf]

Steward: *explains the rules*
Me: *presses it 32 more times before he even finishes*

Hehe oh Stephen

[djdcoy]

Been pretty grateful finding this channel. Most of the movies covered are one that i've found mildly interesting and unsure if i'd want to commit the 90 mins discovering if worth my time. The 10-15 mins is easily digestible

[plat]

These recaps are perfect for movies that aren't worth an hour and a half but are worth fifteen minutes.

[JK-nhit]

The story it was based on was so much better. As it starts similar except that the dad says they shouldn’t do it and leaves to work. Most of the story is the wife deciding what to do she eventually hit the button and right then she gets a call her husband died and the money she was offered(less than a mill in the book) was her husband life insurance. Also in the story she wasn’t disabled and I don’t remember a son her reason for clicking the button was purely selfish.

[PhrontDoor]

This was better as the short "Button, Button" from the Twilight Zone (but it's $200, 000 instead). And the stipulation is "someone you don't know will die" and then when he collects the box, he just SIMPLY says that he'll give the box "to someone you don't know".

It's far more elegant than this movie.

[Xylarxcode]

I remember watching this movie and thinking it was a big ass nosedive. It starts off very interesting, but as soon as they start to dive deeper into the whole Nasa/aliens/undercover employee thing with some stuff in between that may or may not be hallucinations, it starts to rattle apart very quickly. By the time I was an hour into the movie, I had stopped caring how it would go from there.
It did a good job initially grabbing your attention, but it doesn't manage to hold it for very long. At least not for me.

[justine]

I watched this movie and let me tell you this. It's actually confusing and a little boring, kind of all over the place. This channel makes it sound interesting like it would to other movies, which is actually great because its as entertaining as I did watching the movie xD of course we shouldn't discount watching the movie itselft though! We can still learn and appreciate the qualities of a movie, but also enjoy watching recaps :)

[paradox]

Would you press the button?

No, because there is either a massive catch or it's a load of BS.

[janinearmstrong]

There's a part that the recap doesn't show. Norma asks Steward about forgiveness and redemption. She is sorrowful for harming another person. Steward is surprised and not able to answer. Until her question, it was very black and white to him - bad people make bad decisions and get punished. He had just assumed people would be selfish and deserved punishment. But her question of forgiveness makes him question the system.

Side note: I always thought what happens if someone doesn't press the button - does the previous person's gun jam?

[digitalfantasies]

"This news greatly distresses her, because her family is already living paycheck to paycheck. Arthur, meanwhile, GOES TO HIS JOB AT NASA"