

A Simple Twist of Fate
DirectorGillies MacKinnon
“A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!”
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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Trailer
A Simple Twist of Fate - Hallmark Channel
Cast

Steve Martin
Michael McCann

Gabriel Byrne
John Newland

Laura Linney
Nancy Lambert Newland

Catherine O'Hara
April Simon

Alana Austin
Mathilda McCann - Age 10

Stephen Baldwin
Tanny Newland

Byron Jennings
Keating

Michael Des Barres
Bryce

Tim Ware
Rob

David Dwyer
Joe the Bartender
Ed Grady
Judge Marcus

Amelia Campbell
Marsha Swanson
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