A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

  • PG-13
  • 09/02/1994 (US)
  • Family, Comedy, Drama
  • 1h 46m

A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!

Overview

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.

Gillies MacKinnon

Director

George Eliot

Novel

Steve Martin

Writer

Cast

Steve Martin's headshot

Steve Martin

Michael McCann
Gabriel Byrne's headshot

Gabriel Byrne

John Newland
Laura Linney's headshot

Laura Linney

Nancy Lambert Newland
Catherine O'Hara's headshot

Catherine O'Hara

April Simon
Alana Austin's headshot

Alana Austin

Mathilda McCann - Age 10
Stephen Baldwin's headshot

Stephen Baldwin

Tanny Newland
Byron Jennings's headshot

Byron Jennings

Keating
Michael Des Barres's headshot

Michael Des Barres

Bryce

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