Movie

A Simple Twist of Fate

1994 · 106 min

A gentle, bittersweet story of loss and unexpected love, with a warm heart and a touch of melancholy.

Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Genres: Family, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney

Tagline: A twist of fate brought them something wonderful... Each other!
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.

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Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Genres: Family, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
grief
redemption
isolation
love
Places: small town
countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	4
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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