A Simple Twist of Fate(1994)

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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.

A Simple Twist of Fate was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and released in 1994. It is a family, comedy, drama film.

A Simple Twist of Fate has a runtime of 1 hours and 46 minutes (106 minutes total).

The cast of A Simple Twist of Fate includes Steve Martin as Michael McCann, Gabriel Byrne as John Newland, Laura Linney as Nancy Lambert Newland, Catherine O'Hara as April Simon, Alana Austin as Mathilda McCann - Age 10 and more.