A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)1h46
Family · Comedy · Drama
Director Gillies MacKinnon
Also directed Hideous Kinky, The Last Bus, Whisky Galore, and 17 more
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.
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Cast
Steve Martin
Gabriel Byrne
Laura Linney
Catherine O'Hara
Alana Austin
Stephen Baldwin
Byron Jennings
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