Still amazing how Adam Sandler ripped off the 1994 R.L. Stine short story / 1997 Goosebumps TV episode "Click" - about a boy who acquires a special "universal remote" that can control anything - for his 2006 movie "Click" about a man who acquires a special "universal remote" that can control anything.
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the wiki page says the movie is based on an earlier story in an unrelated anthology but doesn't cite that so i didn't put in the effort to chase it down any further
Don't worry, this comment made me fall down the rabbit hole so you don't have to. 
The first search result for "The Magic Thread" curiously pulls up the entire excerpt from The Book of Virtues at this link: https://www.davidgaultiere.com/the-magic-thread/
The story is credited to "Anonymous," I assume that means the person who wrote the story wished to go unnamed, as The Book of Virtues was a compilation of "moral tales" collected from teachers across the nation, edited together by one William J. Bennett - who is more well known for having served as Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1981-'85 and then as Secretary of Education from '85-'88 under Ronald Reagan, and then as the very first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy from 1989-90 under George H.W. Bush, so y'know, when a guy like that publishes a book titled The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, you know exactly what to expect.
But anyways the story in question focuses on the fast-forwarding and rewinding one's own life aspect so I can see how it inspired Click (2006).
I guess when you rip off a Goosebumps episode, a weird conservative parable from the 90s, and It's A Wonderful Life all at once that's not really a rip-off anymore that's just inspiration but still why'd he have to give it the same name as the Goosebumps episode lmao.
The only thing I remember from that movie anyways is Christopher Walken and the Bed Bath & Beyond gag.