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Tags: <story-identification><movie><time-travel><tv>
Title: Movie about a stopwatch that can actually stop time
Question: What is the movie or tv show about a man who has a stopwatch enables him to stop time..airplanes, people, etc? Eventually, he breaks the watch and cannot fix it?

Answers:
sents: text: Sounds like the Twilight Zone episode "
text: A Kind of a Stopwatch" .
text: Patrick McNulty is a self-important bore in his 40s who has accomplished very little. ....
text: McNulty goes to a bar, where he drives away the other patrons with his opinions about a sporting event.
text: The bar owner requests that McNulty patronize another establishment.
text: McNulty ignores him and buys a drink for the sole remaining patron, a drunk.
text: The drunk gives McNulty his stopwatch.
text: Thinking it an odd gift, McNulty quickly discovers that it can stop the passage of time. ....
text: McNulty attempts to rob a bank, but he drops the watch.
text: It breaks, freezing time permanently.
text: Unaware of a way to repair it, McNulty runs around in a panic, ultimately begging the frozen people to talk or move, vainly promising to change his ways if only they will recognize him.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2287/gnovice
score: 15
sents: text: It sounds like the made for TV movie " The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything " starring Robert Hays and Pam Dawber (of Mork & Mindy fame).
text: IMDB profile is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080792/?ref_=sr_1
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15588/Leatherwing
score: 4
sents: text: My first inclination was for Clockstoppers .
text: Though the watch doesn't actually stop time, rather it speeds up the users molecules giving the impression that everything else is stopped.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14200/Snarebyte
score: 3
sents: text: There are quite a few movies and TV shows that featured a pocket watch that could stop time as well as one movie featuring a digital wrist watch.
text: They all appeared to have been based on John D. MacDonald's 1962 sci-fi novel 'The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything.'
text: John D MacDonald may have been influenced by Murray Leinster's short story 'The Eternal Now' from 1944.
text: And Murray Leinster may have been influenced by a short story by H. G. Wells, 'The New Accelerator' in 1901.
text: Here's a list of movies and TV
text: shows that feature a watch that can stop time.
text: I'm sure this list is not complete as there are probably stuff out there that I am not aware of.
text: Twilight Zone episode
text: A Kind of a Stopwatch 1963
text: The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything 1980 (TV movie adaptation of John D. MacDonald's 1962 novel)
text: Friday the 13th
text: The Series episode 13
text: O'clock 1988 Bernard's Watch 1997-2005
text: (British TV show) Clock Stoppers 2002 (the one with the digital wrist watch)
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/78861/EM Uhill
score: 3
sents: text: Could you be thinking of " Greatest American Hero ".
text: It was a TV sitcom from the '80's rather than a film, but there were several feature-length episodes.
text: Everthing turned red when he clicked the stopwatch and they played a ticktock sound and everyone froze in time except him.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48686/Timefreeze
score: 2

Summary of the answers:
Suggestions include "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything ", an episode of the Twilight Zone, "A Kind of a Stopwatch", "Friday the 13th", "O'Clock", "Bernard's Watch", "Greatest American Hero", and "Clock Stoppers".
The movie or TV show may be the Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything; the Twilight Zone; A kind of a Stopwatch; Friday the 13th; O’ Clock; Bernard’s Watch; Clock Stoppers; or Greatest America Hero.