

A Simple Twist of Fate
1994-09-02 · 106 min · ★ 6.2
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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- Directors
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Production companies
- Touchstone Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Revenue
- USD 3,430,583
Top Cast
Steve MartinMichael McCann
Gabriel ByrneJohn Newland
Laura LinneyNancy Lambert Newland
Catherine O'HaraApril Simon
Alana AustinMathilda McCann - Age 10
Stephen BaldwinTanny Newland
Byron JenningsKeating
Michael Des BarresBryce
Tim WareRob
David DwyerJoe the Bartender
Amelia CampbellMarsha Swanson
Carolyn McCormickElaine McCann
Terry LoughlinCal
Leon LamarStablehand
Anne HecheTanny's Playmate (uncredited)
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