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.

A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

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

★ 6.2/10 September 2, 1994 106 min

ComedyDramaFamily

Director: Gillies MacKinnon  ·  Writer: Steve Martin

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.

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Director

Gillies MacKinnon

Cast

Steve Martin Michael McCann Gabriel Byrne John Newland Laura Linney Nancy Lambert Newland Catherine O'Hara April Simon Alana Austin Mathilda McCann - Age 10 Stephen Baldwin Tanny Newland Byron Jennings Keating Michael Des Barres Bryce Tim Ware Rob David Dwyer Joe the Bartender Ed Grady Judge Marcus Amelia Campbell Marsha Swanson