A Simple Twist of Fate

The story

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 & crew

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 Grady

Ed GradyJudge Marcus

Amelia CampbellMarsha Swanson