Twister (1996 film)
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| Directed by | Jan de Bont |
| Produced by |
Ian Bryce Michael Crichton Kathleen Kennedy |
| Written by | Michael Crichton Anne-Marie Martin Joss Whedon (uncredited) |
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Mark Mancina Eddie Van Halen |
| Cinematography | Jack N. Green |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
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Warner Bros. Pictures (North America) Universal Pictures (International) |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $92 million |
| Box office | $494.4 million |
Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 54,688,100 tickets sold in the US.
In the film, a team of storm chasers tries to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma. The plot is a dramatized view of research projects like VORTEX of the NOAA. The device used in the movie, called "Dorothy," is copied from the real-life TOTO, used in the 1980s by NSSL.
In June 1969, 5-year-old Jo Thornton (Alexa Vega), her parents, and the family dog Toby seek shelter in their family storm cellar as a powerful F5 tornado hits their farm in Oklahoma. This tornado is so strong that the storm cellar door is ripped off, causing Jo's father (Richard Lineback) to be pulled into the storm to his death. Jo, her mother (Rusty Schwimmer), and Toby survive.
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