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Name: Twister
Released: 1996-5-10
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Twister

PG-13
1h 53m
1996

63%

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Don't Breathe! Don't Look Back! Just run for your life when a destructive force of nature comes howling straight toward you, destroying everything in its path--when you're running from a Twister. Academy Award winner Helen Hunt stars as Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding, who as a small girl watched her father sucked to his death from her family's storm cellar by a massive tornado. Now a storm chaser, a scientist who risks her life to study the dark side of nature by taking her data-transmitting instruments directly into the path of a deadly storm, Jo chases the largest tornado to ever strike Oklahoma as her marriage implodes and rival scientists will stop and nothing to steal her breakthrough.

Special Features

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Chasing the Storm: TWISTER Revisited

28 MIN

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The Making of TWISTER

3 MIN

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Anatomy of a Twister

8 MIN

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Nature Tech: Tornadoes

45 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

63%

Critics Consensus: A high-concept blockbuster that emphasizes special effects over three-dimensional characters, Twister's visceral thrills are often offset by the film's generic plot.

Reviews

Solzy at the Movies

Danielle Solzman

The film's visual effects might not have aged in the best way but as an epic disaster thriller, Twister still holds up over 25 years after its release.

This is a little long and ridiculous, but it’s also just a tour-de-force roller coaster theme park attraction...which is ironic, because the actual theme park attraction for this sucked.

The engineering of the special effects is fairly impressive, and the sight of so many objects and creatures being buffeted about carries a certain apocalyptic splendor.

As sold in the original trailers all those years ago, this is not about the actors. This is about the special effects, Industrial Light and Magic living up to their name in creating a real monster out of whirling winds.

Particularly notable is the fine character actress Lois Smith as Hunt's aunt.

March 1, 2022

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