Twister is a 1996 disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont. The film was based upon a script by Michael Crichton and his wife, former actress Anne-Marie Martin.
In the movie, a team of "storm chasers" try 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.
Twister is notable for being the first movie ever to be released on the DVD format and the last ever to be released on HD-DVD . Twister will soon be also released in high definition on Blu-ray disc.
Twister is a 1989 comedy film starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott.
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch (Harry Dean Stanton) of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist (Lois Chiles). Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter (Suzy Amis) and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son (Crispin Glover), the son's fiancee (Jenny Wright), and the black maid (Charlaine Woodard). Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband (Dylan McDermott), a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces. Written by John Sacksteder
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. Written by Martin H. Booda
When Bill goes to have Jo sign the divorce papers so he can marry his new girl, Melissa, Jo finds a collection of record breaking tornados and Bill follows along, soon his duties shift from divorcing Jo to helping her with record breaking technology to create a better warning system. Written by Joe Kibler
