A Simple Twist of Fate
September 2, 1994
106 minutes
6.1
FamilyComedyDrama

A Simple Twist of Fate

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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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)
Carolyn McCormick
(Elaine McCann)
Terry Loughlin
(Cal)
Leon Lamar
(Stablehand)
Anne Heche
(Tanny's Playmate (uncredited))
Alyssa Austin
(Mathilda McCann - Age 5)
Afemo Omilami
(Bailiff)