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.
Cast
Steve Martin
Michael McCann
Gabriel Byrne
John Newland
Laura Linney
Nancy Lambert Newland
Catherine O'Hara
April Simon
Alana Austin
Mathilda McCann - Age 10
Stephen Baldwin
Tanny Newland
Byron Jennings
Keating
Michael Des Barres
Bryce
Tim Ware
Rob
David Dwyer
Joe the Bartender
Ed Grady
Judge Marcus
Amelia Campbell
Marsha Swanson
Carolyn McCormick
Elaine McCann
Terry Loughlin
Cal
Leon Lamar
Stablehand
Anne Heche
Tanny's Playmate (uncredited)
Alyssa Austin
Mathilda McCann - Age 5
Afemo Omilami
Bailiff
Crew
Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Steve Martin
Writer, Executive Producer
George Eliot
Novel
Humphrey Dixon
Editor
Andrew Dunn
Cinematography
Ric Kidney
Producer
Karen Snow
Associate Producer
Andy Harris
Production Design
Dianne Crittenden
Casting
Hope Hanafin
Costume Design
Suzanne Kontonickas
Hairstylist
Philip Ivey
Hairstylist
Judy Ponder-Patton
Makeup Department Head
Frank Griffin
Makeup Artist
Cliff Eidelman
Original Music Composer
Maria Nay
Set Decoration
Tim Galvin
Art Direction
