A Simple Twist of Fate

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.

• Gillies MacKinnonDirector
• Steve MartinWriter
• Cliff EidelmanOriginal Music Composer

• Steve MartinMichael McCann
• Gabriel ByrneJohn Newland
• Laura LinneyNancy Lambert Newland
• Catherine O'HaraApril Simon
• Alana AustinMathilda McCann - Age 10
• Stephen BaldwinTanny Newland
• Byron JenningsKeating
• Michael Des BarresBryce
• Tim WareRob
• David DwyerJoe the Bartender
• Ed GradyJudge Marcus
• Amelia CampbellMarsha Swanson