A Simple Twist of Fate

Gillies MacKinnon
1994-09-02

A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!
6.041
106 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Steve Martin Michael McCann Unowned
Gabriel Byrne John Newland Unowned
Laura Linney Nancy Lambert Newland Goutbreak
Catherine O'Hara April Simon Zac E. Chan
Alana Austin Mathilda McCann - Age 10 Unowned
Stephen Baldwin Tanny Newland Unowned
Byron Jennings Keating Unowned
Michael Des Barres Bryce Unowned
Tim Ware Rob Unowned
David Dwyer Joe the Bartender Unowned
Ed Grady Judge Marcus Unowned
Amelia Campbell Marsha Swanson Unowned
Carolyn McCormick Elaine McCann Unowned
Terry Loughlin Cal Unowned
Leon Lamar Stablehand Unowned
Anne Heche Tanny's Playmate (uncredited) Goutbreak
Alyssa Austin Mathilda McCann - Age 5 Unowned