Twister
Twister
Overview
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.
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Cast
Helen Hunt
Bill Paxton
Cary Elwes
Jami Gertz
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lois Smith
Alan Ruck
Sean Whalen
Scott Thomson
Todd Field
Joey Slotnick
Wendle Josepher
Jeremy Davies
Zach Grenier
Gregory Sporleder
Alexa PenaVega
Anthony Rapp
Jake Busey
Rusty Schwimmer
Patrick Fischler
Melanie Hoopes
Samantha McDonald
April Warren
Crew
Jack Green
Hans Zimmer
Bill Coe
Steven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy
Michael Kahn
Jan de Bont
Gerald R. Molen
Walter F. Parkes
Ronald R. Reiss
Risa Bramon Garcia
Ellen Mirojnick
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
John Frazier
Ian Bryce
Laurie MacDonald
Zigmund Gron
Anne-Marie Martin
Glenn Salloum
Mark Mancina
Joseph C. Nemec III
Karen Blynder
R. Anthony Brown
Bradley M. Goodman
Dan Olexiewicz
Robert Deschaine
Tami Treadwell
Teresa Eckton
Alexander Witt
Mic Rodgers
Patrick M. Sullivan
Randi Hiller
Richard Byard
Ricki Maslar
Stefen Fangmeier
Alan Cody
Don Harper
Budd Carr
Matthew Carlisle
Ken Ryan
Stephen Hunter Flick
Beau Baker
Steve Maslow
Bruce Fowler
Kyle Cooper
Guy Hendrix Dyas
Nick Scarano
Steve Callas
Trudy Ramirez
Gregg Landaker
Ron Poniewaz Jr.
Hilda Hodges
William S. Maxwell III
Michael J. Burmeister
Brad Wilder
John Zemansky
Stephen S. Campanelli
David Luckenbach
Kevin O’Connell
Randy Peters
Jeanmarie King
David James
Stan Blackwell
Amanda Brand
Stephanie Flack
Kim Santantonio
Mark Mele
Kaylene Carlson
Carla S. Nemec
Carolyn Tapp
Lori Arnold
William Jacobs
David H. Neale
Timothy Eaton
Linda Yeaney
Ken Nielsen
Mary Jo Lang
Kim Bromley
Geoffrey Patterson
Carolyn Dessert
Leah Brown
Ralph Mendoza
Emmanuel Vouniozos
Raymond Bulinski
Joel Sill
Beth Bergeron
Rory Enke
Alia Agha
Richard Castro
Bob Putynkowski
Timothy Greenwood
Julie Adrianson-Neary
Robert Mehnert
Adam Colunga
Robert L. Thompson
Jeffrey A. Johnson
Raul Essig
Mo Henry
Fireball Tim Lawrence
Giacomo G. Ghiazza
Richard Oswald
Mark Suveg
Catherine Calleson
Jill McGraw
Keith Banks
Daniel R. Bentley
Judee Flick
C. Ashley Sudge
Chuck Parker
John Aldays
Dave Margolin
Mark Hudson
Ron Cooney
Kenneth Sayers
Tom Osman
Mitch Friedman
Florian Kainz
Steven Chambers
Sheridan Ross Batson
Annie Ellis
Robert Gray
Ronn Brown
David K. Riebel
John M. Morse
Stacy Layne Kramer
Bonnie Bott
Terrie Nettles
Amy Dunn
Kevin Laffey
Kirk Miller
Richard Cronn
Justin Holstein
Melissa Bolton
Harold Brooks
Taglines: The Dark Side of Nature.
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
Also Known As: Catch the Wind
Creators: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin
Director: Jan de Bont
Star Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes
Producer (s): Ian Bryce, Michael Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Production House: Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Music: Mark Mancina
Original network / Official Sites: Warner Bros., Universal Pictures,
Release Year: 10 May 1996 (USA)
Runtime: 113 min
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English,
Subtitles: English, Bengali
In June 1969 Oklahoma, young Jo Thornton and her family are awakened by an approaching F5 tornado. The family seeks refuge in their storm cellar, but the tornado rips the cellar door off and pulls Jo’s father to his death.
Twenty-seven years after the death of Jo’s father, the National Severe Storms Laboratory predicts a record outbreak of tornadoes in Oklahoma over a 24-hour period. Now an adult, Jo, a meteorologist and storm chaser, is reunited with her estranged husband, Bill Harding, a former weather researcher and fellow storm chaser, who has since moved on to become a television weather reporter; he is planning to marry reproductive therapist Melissa Reeves. However, his plans are delayed, as Jo has not yet signed the long-overdue divorce papers. Visiting Jo’s camp to get her to complete the forms, Bill finds that she and her team have built four tornado research devices called DOROTHY based on his design. Each unit contains hundreds of sensors that, if picked up by a tornado, will provide data that could lead to breakthroughs in meteorological research. Before Jo can finish the paperwork, her team rushes to intercept a nearby forming F1 tornado, forcing Bill and Melissa to chase after her. Bill encounters Dr. Jonas Miller, a corporate-funded meteorologist and long-time rival storm chaser, and learns that he has created a device called DOT-3, a blatant copy of DOROTHY. Bill vows to help Jo deploy DOROTHY before Jonas can deploy DOT-3 and claim credit for the idea.
In an attempt to deploy DOROTHY and get back to his regular life, Bill maneuvers Jo’s Jeep Gladiator off-road into a muddy ditch towards the rapidly growing tornado. They collide with a small wooden bridge and find themselves trapped in the direct path of the oncoming tornado. As they take cover, Jo’s truck and DOROTHY I are both picked up and destroyed by the tornado.
A second tornado is spotted. Jonas and his team are also moving to intercept the storm cell, which has at this point grown into an F2 tornado. However, Bill’s intuition that the tornado will shift towards another direction sends them off seemingly in the right direction. Bill, Jo, and Melissa have a dangerous encounter with twin waterspout tornadoes on a enclosed road and they’re spun round, which leaves Melissa shaken. The rest of the team, however, is ecstatic about the encounter and convince Jo to let them go visit Jo’s Aunt Meg in the nearby town of Wakita for food and rest.
While there, the team informs Melissa about Jo’s backstory, explaining that Jo has since become obsessed with ensuring nobody else suffers the same fate as her father. Jo, realizing she is falling in love with Bill again, isolates herself from the rest of the group and is confronted by Aunt Meg, who tells her that no matter what happens, they will always end up together.
They learn an F3 tornado is quickly forming in a neighboring county. As the team attempts to intercept the F3, the tornado initially fails to appear. They make yet another attempt to deploy a DOROTHY unit, but the tornado forms on top of them, damaging the truck and destroying DOROTHY II in the process. Overwhelmed by these recent events and racked with guilt over her father’s death, Jo begins to despair. As their emotions run high, Bill tells Jo that he’s still in love with her, unaware that Melissa is hearing the conversation over CB radio.
That night, the team stays in a hotel next to a drive-in cinema. Jo decides to fill out the remaining divorce papers but is interrupted when an F4 tornado forms nearby, forcing her team as well as townspeople caught in the storm to take shelter. During the twister, Preacher is injured when his head is hit by flying debris. The theater, a repair shop, and much of the team’s equipment are heavily damaged, including Preacher’s station wagon and Rabbit and Sanders’ truck. Finding herself traumatized by the recent near-death experiences and recognizing the re-blossoming love between Bill and Jo, Melissa peacefully ends her relationship with Bill and makes her own way home. The tornado continues on to devastate the town of Wakita, injuring Aunt Meg and flattening her home. Aunt Meg is taken to a nearby hospital but pushes Jo not to give up, reminding her of Wakita having essentially been hit blind by the tornado as they had no warning, the tornado sirens having barely gone off before it struck. The team hears that an F5 is forming close by and in a brief moment of quiet, Jo absently watches Aunt Meg’s wind chimes. The image inspires an epiphany and she begins to form a plan to improve and deploy the next DOROTHY unit.
As the sun starts to rise, the team sets out to intercept the F5 tornado, which has grown to be over a mile wide. Bill and Jo lay the newly altered DOROTHY III directly in the F5’s path, but it is destroyed by an uprooted tree. Meanwhile, Jonas attempts to deploy DOT-3 in a similar fashion, ignoring Bill’s repeated warnings that his team is too close and that the tornado is shifting directly towards them. A metal tower impales Jonas’ driver, Eddie, and their vehicle is swept into the tornado and thrown to the ground, killing both men and destroying DOT-3 in the resulting explosion. Bill and Jo press on, realizing that the only way to successfully deploy DOROTHY IV is by driving directly into the tornado and jumping out before Bill’s truck is swept away. The plan works and the rest of the team celebrates the successful deployment of DOROTHY IV. However, Bill and Jo’s celebration is cut short when the F5 shifts direction towards them. They flee into the nearby cornfields and take shelter in a water pump facility, fastening themselves to deeply rooted pipes. As the tornado passes overhead, they are able to see the interior of the tornado, before the storm dissipates altogether. The rest of the team arrives on scene to celebrate the achievement while Jo and Bill excitedly plan the next phase of research, deciding to run their own lab and rekindle their marriage.
