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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.

1994 |1h 46m |  Family, Comedy, Drama

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Cast

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Steve Martin

Michael McCann

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Gabriel Byrne

John Newland

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Laura Linney

Nancy Lambert Newland

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Catherine O'Hara

April Simon

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Alana Austin

Mathilda McCann - Age 10

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Stephen Baldwin

Tanny Newland

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Byron Jennings

Keating

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Michael Des Barres

Bryce

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Tim Ware

Rob

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David Dwyer

Joe the Bartender

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Amelia Campbell

Marsha Swanson

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Carolyn McCormick

Elaine McCann

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Terry Loughlin

Cal

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Leon Lamar

Stablehand

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Anne Heche

Tanny's Playmate (uncredited)

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Status

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Language

English

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