A Simple Twist of Fate

1994

106 min

6.0

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Family, Comedy, Drama

Director

Gillies MacKinnon

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Steve Martin

Gabriel Byrne

Laura Linney

Catherine O'Hara

Alana Austin

Stephen Baldwin

Byron Jennings

Michael Des Barres

Tim Ware

David Dwyer

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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.

  • Steve Martin

  • Gabriel Byrne

  • Laura Linney

  • Catherine O'Hara

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