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Release Date:
September 2, 1994
Original Title:
A Simple Twist of Fate
Alternate Titles:
le cadeau du ciel
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Family
Production Companies:
Touchstone Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: PG-13
Runtime: 106
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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Art Direction:
Tim Galvin
Associate Producer:
Karen Snow
Casting:
Dianne Crittenden
Cinematography:
Andrew Dunn
Costume Design:
Hope Hanafin
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Editor:
Humphrey Dixon
Executive Producer:
Steve Martin
Hairstylist:
Philip Ivey
Suzanne Kontonickas
Makeup Artist:
Frank Griffin
Makeup Department Head:
Judy Ponder-Patton
Novel:
George Eliot
Original Music Composer:
Cliff Eidelman
Producer:
Ric Kidney
Production Design:
Andy Harris
Set Decoration:
Maria Nay
Writer:
Steve Martin
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