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A Simple Twist of Fate
“A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!”
19946.11h 46m
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.
Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Written by Steve Martin, George Eliot
Produced by Ric Kidney
Box Office0Revenue: $3.4M
Top 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
About A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate is a family, comedy, drama film released in 1994. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, it stars Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney. 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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