A Simple Twist of Fate

1994

PG-13

1h 46m

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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.

Writers

Steve Martin(writer by)
George Eliot(novel by)
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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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David Dwyer
Joe the Bartender
Ed Grady
Judge Marcus
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Amelia Campbell
Marsha Swanson
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Carolyn McCormick
Elaine McCann
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Leon Lamar
Stablehand
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Anne Heche
Tanny's Playmate (uncredited)
Alyssa Austin
Mathilda McCann - Age 5

Writers

Steve Martin(writer by)
George Eliot(novel by)

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Release date

September 2, 1994 (United States)

Country of origin

United States of America

Language

English

Production company

Touchstone Pictures

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