A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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