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Twister

Twister

1996
PG-13
113 min
Action Adventure Thriller

Plot Summary

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.

6.6
IMDb Rating
67%
Rotten Tomatoes
68
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

6.6
IMDb Rating
67%
Rotten Tomatoes
68
Metacritic

Technical Details

113 min
Runtime
10 May 1996
Release Date
PG-13
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1996
Year
Genres
Action Adventure Thriller

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User Reviews

r96sk

r96sk

7.0/10
Recent

<em>'Twister'</em> makes for fun viewing. There's a good chance that this was one of the (if not <em>the</em>) first films that I ever watched, it was released a mere few months after my birth and I have a faint memory of watching it on video as a young kid, I remember my mum had taped it and it was recorded back-to-back with a random music concert that was also on TV at the time - I can still picture myself seeing it switch from the film to the music. With that said, if I did indeed watch...

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Wuchak

Wuchak

7.0/10
Recent

**_Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt chasing tornadoes on the prairie_** When atmospheric conditions are conducive to tornadoes, a weatherman (Paxton) tracks down his separated wife (Hunt) and inadvertently joins their storm-chasing team in the Midwest because he can’t resist seeing his sensor invention finally put to use. Jami Gertz plays his new love, Cary Elwes a pompous rival and Philip Seymour Hoffman a wild team member. “Twister” (1996) could be categorized as a disaster flick, but with the...

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Technical Info
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