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.

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  Gillies MacKinnon

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