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A Simple Twist of Fate

1994-1h 46min
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6.1 / 10 114

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

Writers Steve Martin George Eliot

Stars Steve Martin Gabriel Byrne Laura Linney

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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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Ed Grady

Judge Marcus
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Amelia Campbell

Marsha Swanson

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