
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.
Top Billed Cast

Steve Martin
Michael McCann

Gabriel Byrne
John Newland

Laura Linney
Nancy Lambert Newland

Catherine O'Hara
April Simon

Alana Austin
Mathilda McCann - Age 10
Featured Crew

Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Hope Hanafin
Costume Design

Steve Martin
Writer
Tim Galvin
Art Direction
Karen Snow
Associate Producer
Frank Griffin
Makeup Artist
Humphrey Dixon
Editor
George Eliot
Novel
Dianne Crittenden
Casting
Maria Nay
Set Decoration
Philip Ivey
Hairstylist
Andrew Dunn
Cinematography