Twister

Director: Jan de Bont

Overview

Storm chasers Paxton and Hunt attempt to throw a "sensor" or kinds into a tornado to study it from inside. Thin plots and characters, but who cares? Ground breaking special effects and powerful direction from DeBont make this more of an amusement park ride than a movie.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2017
UPC:	0883929579723
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	PG-13
Language:	English

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Helen Hunt	Jo Harding
Bill Paxton	Bill Harding
Cary Elwes	Dr. Jonas Miller
Jami Gertz	Melissa
Lois Smith	Aunt Meg
Alan Ruck	Rabbit
Philip Seymour Hoffman	Dusty
Sean Whalen	Sanders
Scott Thomson	Preacher
Todd Field	Beltzer
Joey Slotnick	Joey
Wendle Josepher	Haynes
Jeremy Davies	Laurence
Zach Grenier	Eddie
Gregory Sporleder	Willie
Patrick Fischler	The Communicator
Nicholas Sadler	Kubrick
Ben Weber	Stanley
Abraham Benrubi	Bubba
Erik LaRay Harvey	Eric
Anthony Rapp	Tony
Jake Busey	Mobile Lab Technician
Melanie Hoopes	Patty
J. Dean Lindsay	Dean
Dan Kelpine	Diner Mechanic
Sharonlyn Morrow	Waitress
Richard Lineback	Father
Rusty Schwimmer	Mother
Alexa Vega	Five Year Old Jo
Taylor Gilbert	NSSL Scientist Bryce
Bruce Wright	NSSL Scientist Murphy
Gary England	TV Meteorologist No. 1
Jeff Lazalier	TV Meteorologist No. 2
Rick Mitchell	TV Meteorologist No. 3
John Thomas Rhyne	Paramedic
Paul Douglas	Bodger
Samantha McDonald	Drive-In Girl
Anneke De Bont	Farm Girl
Jennifer L. Hamilton	Drive-In Girl
Eric LaRay Harvey	Eric
Mark Mancina	Composer

Technical Credits

Anne-Marie Martin

Michael Crichton

Anne-Marie Martin	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Michael Crichton	Screenwriter,Producer
Kathleen Kennedy	Producer
Ian Bryce	Producer
Walter F. Parkes	Executive Producer
Gerald R. Molen	Executive Producer,Producer
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer
Laurie MacDonald	Executive Producer
Risa Bramon Garcia	Casting
Mic Rogers	Stunts
Geoffrey Patterson	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Henry LaBounta	Special Effects
John Frazier	Special Effects
Stefen Fangmeier	Special Effects
Habib Zargarpour	Special Effects
Michael E. Burke	Special Effects
James M. Halty	Stunts
Mike Runyard	Stunts
Warren Hamilton	Sound Editor
Steve Maslow	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Trading in the bus for a tornado, Speed director Jan De Bont brews up one of the most spectacular natural disaster films to ever hit the screen. When a record-breaking number of tornadoes attack the Midwest, Jo (Helen Hunt) and Bill (Bill Paxton) lead their team of "storm chasers" through Oklahoma in hopes of recording scientific evidence and devising an earlier warning system. Thought the nominal story takes a backseat to the truly amazing special effects, there is an appealing chemistry between Hunt and Paxton, and the supporting cast (led by Cary Elwes and Phillip Seymour Hoffman) supplies laughs. And if character development sometimes gets lost in the storm, De Bont creates a memorable villain in the devastatingly believable -- and beautiful -- spectacle of a computer-animated tornado. The skies are threatening, the landscape sweeping, and cows and tractors flying through the air will remind you of that other famous Hollywood cyclone. No one ends up in Oz here, but Twister has a magic all its own. -- J. D. Merrill