A Simple Twist of Fate poster
Writer Steve Martin
Director Gillies MacKinnon

A Simple Twist of Fate

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

Release Date: 1994-09-02

Duration: 106 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Catherine O'Hara
    April Simon
  • Stephen Baldwin
    Tanny Newland
  • Laura Linney
    Nancy Lambert Newland
  • Steve Martin
    Michael McCann
  • Anne Heche
    Tanny's Playmate (uncredited)
  • Gabriel Byrne
    John Newland
  • Alana Austin
    Mathilda McCann - Age 10
  • David Dwyer
    Joe the Bartender
  • Michael Des Barres
    Bryce
  • Carolyn McCormick
    Elaine McCann