A Simple Twist of Fate

Name: A Simple Twist of Fate
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Released: 1994
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Alana Austin

1994 · 106 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 6,343 VOTES · DIR. Gillies MacKinnon

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. 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.

Dialogue Timeline — 805 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:34 Born is a baby, gentle as may be

00:06:33 Feel the top.

00:09:11 Mine's at Morgan Stanley. I dole it out to my big brother when I see fit.

00:14:19 Pennies is right.

00:22:12 and there was no blood around McCann's house, plus he made a quick getaway.

00:30:31 - Sure. - It's all right. It's all right.

00:35:03 Look, I'm not good at interviews, so you have to overlook everything you see right now

00:39:54 Now, let's see.

00:43:02 Wave goodbye, just in case.

00:48:31 - I can't spank her. - Nobody says to spank her.

00:54:01 - Are you suffering from ennui? - Huh?

00:57:28 The other way, not that way!

01:01:04 Have you seen this picture?

01:04:07 Look at the Greens.

01:07:23 You are her natural father.

01:10:23 I'm going!

01:13:08 Would you like to come and live here with us, Mathilda?

01:17:20 Lots, I suppose.

01:20:41 - Can I talk to you? - I'd like nothing more.

01:23:26 The night the child walked into Mr McCann's house, you were there?

01:25:38 be given the opportunities she deserves!

01:27:54 Stand down.

01:30:44 I wanna be an actress!

01:33:52 but my heart would want it that way.

Cast & Characters

Steve Martin Michael McCann Gabriel Byrne John Newland Laura Linney Nancy Lambert Newland Catherine O'Hara April Simon Alana Austin Mathilda McCann - Age 10 Alyssa Austin Mathilda McCann - Age 5 Alaina Mobley Mathilda McCann - Age 3 Callie Mobley Mathilda McCann - Age 3 Victoria Evans Mathilda McCann - Age 1 Elizabeth Evans Mathilda McCann - Age 1

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed805

Dialogue density7.6 lines / min

First line00:00:34

Final line01:33:52

Production Record

DirectorGillies MacKinnon

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes6,343