Search - A Simple Twist of Fate on DVD

Bring it back!

Barbara Farr Kelley | 07/09/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of those Steve Martin films that should always be available for purchase. It is my favorite of his, along with All of Me.A Simple Twist of Fate is the story of a man who finds out the baby his wife is carrying is not his. She leaves him to go to this other man.He spends his time afterwards buying expensive gold coins and polishing them and staring at them every day until one day a man steals all his coins and runs off with them.Steve Martin's character is real down about this time and he just mopes around all day and doesn't talk to anybody. Then, one day, a simple twist of fate walks right into his life. A little girl around a year a half to two years old walks right into his house and chooses him as a daddy.Her mama was a drug addict and she got her money for drugs from a rich politician in town who was married, but who was the father of her little girl. The mama wanted more money and the man wouldn't give it to her, so she packed the little girl and herself into the car and drove in the snow to go see the politician. But on the way, the car wouldn't work any more and the woman and little girl walked in the snow. The mother was all high on dope and she died not far from Steve Martin's house, and the little girl saw the light in his window and walked right on in just like it was her own house.Steve Martin adopted her and the little girl grew up to love him like her own daddy. Her real daddy (Gabriel Byrne)was still a politician in town but nobody knew it until the real daddy wanted to lay claim to his daughter, who was now about 10 or 12 years old. Now there would be a court battle on who would gain or keep custody of little Matilda.I believe everyone should see this movie, and since the producers are not producing this movie any more, I'm sure you could rent a copy at your nearest video rental store.In the meantime, won't you producers PLEASE bring back this beautiful and tender movie so that I can buy a copy of it? I know others would like to have this movie, too."

A decent take-off on a classic

Fiction lover | 04/02/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"To Rana Blue: This movie is a take off on George Elliot's masterpice, Silas Marner. In that book the girl decides for herself that she will stay with her father rather than go to her biological father's home, but that girl is 16 and there is no custody battle in court (the story is set in England in the 1800s). However, in that story, as in this one, the brother steals the gold and then falls in to the lake and drowns. Mr. Newland didn't remember that he had thrown his brother into the lake because he didn't do it. Just as Matlida could have fallen in when she was a toddler, the brother -- drunk, in the dark and having just left a girl to die in his car -- left McCann's home and stumbled over the cliff. Do you not think a man would remember where he illegally buried his dead brother? The truth is, he didn't know that his brother was dead, and he was probably happy to be rid of him because the brother was the only adult alive who knew the truth about the baby, so he didn't bother to search for him. And the other truth is that the judge let Matilda stay with McCann because he was her father, and once he got his money back and all things were equal between the two men, there was no question as to where Matlida belonged."