The team then scrambles to chase a developing twister. Meanwhile, Meg infers to her niece that Bill and Jo still love each other. While there, Bill tells Melissa about Jo's childhood trauma. The team visits Jo's Aunt Meg in nearby Wakita to eat. Bill and Jo are unscathed, though Melissa is traumatized. While driving through water-filled fields, two waterspouts form, with one of them splitting into two, and they ambush and violently thrash the vehicle before dissipating. They encounter Jonas's team just as Bill accurately predicts a sudden change in the tornado's path and diverts their course. With more storms developing, Bill leads the team in his truck, chasing an intensifying F2 tornado. Jo and Bill hide under a bridge as the tornado destroys the vehicle, a tractor, a small footbridge, and one of the four Dorothy prototypes. As the team pursues a developing F1 tornado, Jo's truck runs into a ditch. Enraged, Bill agrees to accompany Jo and the team for one day to successfully launch Dorothy. Jonas plans to deploy his version first to receive sole credit. Jo's team rushes off to chase a developing storm, forcing Bill and Melissa to follow in Bill's new truck when Jo leaves with the unsigned papers.Īlong the way, Bill encounters Jonas Miller, a rival storm chaser and former colleague with corporate funding who stole Bill's idea for a Dorothy-like device. Dorothy could revolutionize tornado research and potentially provide an earlier storm-warning system, but the device must be deployed dangerously close to a tornado to work.
Bill is excited that Jo has created "Dorothy", a capsule-like device containing hundreds of small weather sensors that he conceptualized, but never saw realized.
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Jo's estranged husband, Bill Harding, an ex-storm chaser turned TV weatherman, travels to Oklahoma with his fiancé, Melissa Reeves, a therapist, to ensure that Jo signs their divorce papers. Twenty-seven years later, Jo is a tornado-obsessed meteorologist who leads a rag-tag team of storm chasers. On an Oklahoma farm in 1969, young Jo Thornton, her parents, and their dog, Toby, take shelter from a F5 tornado that ultimately destroys their farm and kills Jo's father. A sequel, Twisters, is in production and is projected for a July 2024 release. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound, but lost both to Independence Day and The English Patient respectively. It received generally positive reviews from critics, as some praised the visual effects and sound design, but others criticized the screenplay. Twister grossed $495 million worldwide and became the second-highest grossing film of 1996 it sold an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the United States. It is notable for being the first film to be released on DVD in the United States. Twister was officially released in theaters on May 10, 1996. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, and Jeremy Davies as a group of amateur but spirited storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe outbreak in Oklahoma. It was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce, with Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Twister is a 1996 American epic disaster film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin.
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