Twister (1996) Bill Paxton Bill Helen Hunt Jo Jami Gertz Melissa Cary Elwes Dr. Jonas Miller Lois Smith Aunt Meg Philip Seymour Hoffman Dusty Alan Ruck Rabbit Sean Whalen Sanders Scott Thomson Preacher Todd Field Beltzer Joey Slotnick Joey Wendle Josepher Haynes Jeremy Davies Laurence Zach Grenier Eddie Gregory Sporleder Willie Directed by: Jan De Bont Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald The largest storm to hit Oklahoma in more than half a century is brewing, and it promises to drop multiple twisters into Tornado Alley. It's the storm that two rival groups of scientists--Jo Harding and her band of brash university students, and corporate-sponsored Dr. Jonas Miller and his sleek, crack cadre with their state-of-the-art research vans--have been waiting for to earn their place in meteorological history. Each team wants to be the first to launch their own equipment pack inside a twister to transmit valuable scientific data about tornado behavior. But to do so, they must put themselves directly in the path of the marauding monster--and stay always just ahead of the swirling twister, anticipating its every move. Adding to the charged atmosphere, Jo's soon-to-be-ex-husband, meteorologist Bill Harding, reluctantly joins Jo and his old crew for this last, epic chase. ========== 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. ========== When Bill goes to have Jo sign the divorce papers so he can marry his new girl, Melissa, Jo finds a collection of record breaking tornados and Bill follows along, soon his duties shift from divorcing Jo to helping her with record breaking technology to create a better warning system.