A Simple Twist of Fate

Steve Martin adapted George Elliot’s classic novel Silas Marner into an updated (and infrequently funny) account of a recluse who adopts a young girl., Martin plays Michael McCann, a lonely recluse who shuns all company until, one winter night, an orphan girl turns up on his doorstep. He adopts and raises her but as the years go by, the child’s real father (Gabriel Byrne) decides to reveal himself and the fight is on for the right to raise the teenage girl., Drama starring Steve Martin as a shy loner who comes to the aid of a sick woman who can no longer look after her daughter. Soon he finds himself fighting a custody battle over the child with his well-to-do neighbours., In Steve Martin’s appealing update of George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner’, a man who has become a recluse after a personal tragedy is brought out of his shell by a toddler who wanders on to his doorstep one winter. He raises the youngster, who grows into a bright young girl, but then her real father, a rich politician, reappears on the scene, and a custody battle looms., A bitter, divorced man’s life is brightened by the arrival of an abandoned child. A Modern take on George Eliot’s novel ‘Silas Marner.’, Steve Martin (who also scripted) gets serious in this modern take on George Eliot’s novel “Silas Marner,” playing a bitter divorced man whose life is brightened by the arrival of an abandoned child., When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthropist 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. He names her Mathilda, and raises her, finding companionship and a new joy in life with his adopted daughter. But the secret of Mathilda’s birth may tear them apart., Appealing update of George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner’, in which a man who has become a recluse after a personal tragedy is brought out of his shell by a toddler who wanders on to his doorstep one winter. He raises the youngster, who grows into a bright young girl, but then her real father, a rich politician, reappears on the scene, and a custody battle looms.