- HD 1080
- Runtime: 106m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Gillies MacKinnon
- Stars: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Alana Austin
- Production_studio: Touchstone Pictures
- Slogan: A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!
- The A Simple Twist of Fate is featured in the top rankings of 1994
- #78 in Top Comedy Movies of 1994
- #18 in Top Family Movies of 1994
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.