A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!
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.
- Release date
- September 2, 1994
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Cliff Eidelman
- Box office
- $3,430,583
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Trailer
Soundtrack
- A Simple Twist of Fateinstrumental5:06
- Mathilda’s Fantasyinstrumental2:27
- The Braceletinstrumental1:24
- Prelude to Tanny’s Fateinstrumental3:03
- Floating on Airinstrumental1:57
- Red Is the Roseinstrumental1:38
- Okay You’re Freeinstrumental1:50
- Into the Lightinstrumental3:07
- A New Lifeinstrumental3:05
- Red Is the Rose (reprise)instrumental3:41
- Transcendinginstrumental2:23
- Michael’s Themeinstrumental2:06
Cast
- 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
- Stephen Baldwin as Tanny Newland
- Byron Jennings as Keating
- Michael Des Barres as Bryce
- Tim Ware as Rob
- David Dwyer as Joe the Bartender
- Ed Grady as Judge Marcus
- Amelia Campbell as Marsha Swanson
- Carolyn McCormick as Elaine McCann
- Terry Loughlin as Cal
- Leon Lamar as Stablehand
- Anne Heche as Tanny's Playmate (uncredited)
- Afemo Omilami as Bailiff
- Alyssa Austin as Mathilda McCann - Age 5
- Alaina Mobley as Mathilda McCann - Age 3
- Callie Mobley as Mathilda McCann - Age 3
- Victoria Evans as Mathilda McCann - Age 1
- Elizabeth Evans as Mathilda McCann - Age 1
Crew
- Gillies MacKinnon · Director
- George Eliot · Writer
- Steve Martin · Writer
- Ric Kidney · Producer
- Cliff Eidelman · Composer
- Andrew Dunn · Cinematographer
- Humphrey Dixon · Editor
- Dianne Crittenden · Casting director
- Andy Harris · Production designer