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.
Steve Martin
as Michael McCann
Gabriel Byrne
as John Newland
Laura Linney
as Nancy Lambert Newland
Catherine O'Hara
as April Simon
Alana Austin
as Mathilda McCann - Age 10
Stephen Baldwin
as Tanny Newland
Byron Jennings
as Keating
Michael Des Barres
as Bryce
Tim Ware
as Rob
David Dwyer
as Joe the Bartender
Ed Grady
as Judge Marcus
Amelia Campbell
as Marsha Swanson
