A Simple Twist of Fate

6.1

106m

1994

PG-13

Family, Comedy, Drama

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.

Starring

Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Alana Austin, Stephen Baldwin, Byron Jennings, Michael Des Barres, Tim Ware, David Dwyer

Directed By

Gillies MacKinnon