See also: Twister (homonymy)

Twister is an American film carried out by Jan de Bont, left in 1996.

Synopsis

OJ Harding was still a child when she saw her father carried by a twister, a tornado. 15 years later, with the head of a team of meteorologists, it tracks this mysterious bad weather which devastates the American plains. This summer, the weather envisages the most violent tornado which struck Oklahoma in 50 years…

Data sheet

• Title: Twister
• Realization: Jan de Bont
• Scenario: Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin
• Production: Ian Bryce, Michael Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, Laurie MacDonald and Steven Spielberg
• Production companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Constant C Productions
• Budget: 92 million dollars
• Music: Mark Mancina
• Photography: Jack NR. Green
• Assembly: Michael Kahn
• Decorations: Joseph C. Nemec III
• Costumes: Ellen Mirojnick
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
• Kind: Venture
• Durée: 113 minutes
• Comings out date: May 10th 1996 (the United States), August 21st 1996 (France), August 22nd 1996 (Belgium)

Distribution

• Helen Hunt: Dr. OJ Harding
• Bill Paxton: Bill Harding
• Cary Elwes : Dr. Jonas Miller
• Jami Gertz: Dr. Melissa Reeves
• Philip Seymour Hoffman: Dustin Davis
• Laws Smith: Meg Greene
• Alan Ruck : Robert “Rabbit” Nurick
• Sean Whalen: Allan Sanders
• Scott Thomson : Jason “Preacher” Rowe
• Todd Field: Tim “Beltzer” Lewis
• Joey Slotnick: Joey
• Wendle Josepher : Haynes
• Jeremy Davies: Laurence
• Zach Attic: Eddie
• Gregory Sporleder : Willie

Around film

• turning was held with Ames, Boone, Eldora, Rippey and Whitten, in Iowa, Guthrie, Maysville, Norman, Pauls Valley, Ponca City, Wakita and Waurika in Oklahoma and Bolton, in Ontario.

Original soundtrack

• Talula (BT' S Tornado Mix) , interpreted by Tori Amos
• Motherless Child , interpreted by Eric Clapton
• Darling Pretty , interpreted by Mark Knopfler
• Twisted , interpreted by Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham
• Melancholy Mechanics , interpreted by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• She Ain' T Coming Back , interpreted by Joe Diffie
• Virtual Reality , interpreted by Rusted Root
• No One Needs to Know , interpreted by Shania Twain
• Child In Time , interpreted by Deep Purple
• Oklahoma , composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
• Long Way Down , interpreted by the Goo Goo Frauds
• Miss This , interpreted by Drunk Asylum
• Broken , interpreted by Belly
• See The Sky Again , interpreted by Edwin McCain
• Humans Being , interpreted by Van Halen
• How , interpreted by LISA Loeb and Nine Stories
• Moments Like This , interpreted by Alison Krauss and Union Station
• De Natura Sonoris No 1 , composed by Krzysztof Penderecki
• Coils Affair , interpreted by Ennio Morricone and K.d. Lang
• Respect The Wind , interpreted by Van Halen

Rewards

• Nomination with the Oscar of the best special effects and the best sound in 1997.
• Nomination at the price of best film of adventure, better actor (Bill Paxton), better actress (Helen Hunt) and better special effects, at the time of the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror 1997.
• Price of the worst scenario and nomination at the price of the worst female supporting role (Jami Gertz), at the time of the Razzie Awards 1997.

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