Movie
A Simple Twist of Fate
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1994-09-02
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Family, Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Touchstone Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Steve Martin as Michael McCann
- Gabriel Byrne as John Newland
- Laura Linney as Nancy Lambert Newland
- Catherine O'Hara as April Simon
- Alana Austin as Mathilda McCann - Age 10
- Stephen Baldwin as Tanny Newland
- Byron Jennings as Keating
- Michael Des Barres as Bryce
- Tim Ware as Rob
- David Dwyer as Joe the Bartender
- Ed Grady as Judge Marcus
- Amelia Campbell as Marsha Swanson
Crew
- Gillies MacKinnon - Director
- Steve Martin - Writer
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