Twister [videorecording DVD] / Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal Pictures present an Amblin Entertainment production, a Jan De Bont film ; produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Ian Bryce and Michael Crichton ; written by Michael Crichton & Anne-Marie Martin ; directed by Jan De Bont.
Title from container. Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Special features: Disc 1: Commentary by director Jan De Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier; theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: "Chasing the storm: Twister revisited" new featurette; "Nature tech: tornadoes anatomy of a twister:" The History Channel documentary; "HBO First Look: the making of Twister" featurette; Van Halen 'Humans being' music video.
Summary:
Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. 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 has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the funnel of the tornado. They hope to obtain data to create an improved weather warning system. In order to get the sensors to work, the team must intercept the twister.
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