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A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 2, 1994

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Family, Comedy, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

A Simple Twist of Fate

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures

Director

Gillies MacKinnon

Description

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.