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    A Simple Twist of Fate

    PG-131994 · Drama · 1h 46m

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      • Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house.
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  1. Synopsis. It is 1979. In Washington DC, high school music teacher Michael McCann (Steve Martin) discovers his wife Elaine (Carolyn McCormick) is pregnant by another man. Elaine breaks the news to Michael while serving him the results of a genetic test she had performed at the school. Michael wanted to name his daughter Mathilda.

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  3. Sep 2, 1994 · Steve Martin’s screenplay for “A Simple Twist of Fate” is based on Silas Marner, George Eliot’s 1861 novel about a poor weaver whose life is destroyed by a false accusation. He becomes a reclusive miser, hoarding coins. Then his treasure is stolen, and he is inconsolable, until a little golden-haired girl wanders into his life.

  4. Sep 2, 1994 · Overview. 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.

  5. Synopsis. A lonely divorced furniture maker's life is upended when a toddler wanders into his home during a winter storm. With no other option, he adopts the girl and forms a loving bond with her, but is threatened by the arrival of her biological father, a senator.

  6. A Simple Twist of Fate is a 1994 American comedy-drama movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon and was based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot. It stars Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin and Carolyn McCormick.

  7. A Simple Twist of Fate is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The screenplay by Steve Martin is loosely based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot. Martin stars, along with Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara and Stephen Baldwin.

  8. Synopsis. 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.

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