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A Simple Twist of Fate plot summary

A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!

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.

Details

Release date

September 2, 1994

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Family, Comedy, Drama

Directed by

Gillies MacKinnon

Country

United States

TMDB rating

6.2 / 10 · 133 votes

A Simple Twist of Fate trailer

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Cast

• Steve MartinMichael McCann
• Gabriel ByrneJohn Newland
• Laura LinneyNancy Lambert Newland
• Catherine O'HaraApril Simon
• Alana AustinMathilda McCann - Age 10
• Stephen BaldwinTanny Newland
• Byron JenningsKeating
• Michael Des BarresBryce
• Tim WareRob
• David DwyerJoe the Bartender

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