A Simple Twist of Fate

Embittered, reclusive furniture maker Michael McCann (Steve Martin) found his solitude in the Virginia hills broken by the discovery of a toddler wandered off from her overdosed mother. The ensuing decade finds the adopted girl changing his life for the better...but heartache is ensured when her patrician birth father (Gabriel Byrne) now decides he wants to raise her. Touching modern-dress spin on "Silas Marner," scripted by Martin, co-stars Catherine O'Hara, Laura Linney, Alana Austin. 106 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; theatrical trailer.