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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Classical in form, spare, earnest and contemporary.
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Cast
- Steve MartinMichael McCann
- Gabriel ByrneJohn Newland
- Laura LinneyNancy Lambert Newland
- Catherine O'HaraApril Simon
- Alana AustinMathilda McCann - Age 10
- Stephen BaldwinTanny Newland
- Byron JenningsKeating
- Michael Des BarresBryce
- Tim WareRob
- David DwyerJoe the Bartender
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- Gillies MacKinnonDirector
- Steve MartinWriter
- George EliotNovel
- Andrew DunnDirector of Photography
- Cliff EidelmanOriginal Music Composer
- Humphrey DixonEditor
- Ric KidneyProducer
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