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Title Twister [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal Pictures present ; an Amblin Entertainment production ; a Jan de Bont film ; written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin ; produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Ian Bryce and Michael Crichton ; directed by Jan de Bont ; executive producers, Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Gerald R. Molen.

Imprint Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Twister    ---  DUE 02-14-22 Billed
Edition Widescreen.
Description 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: Behind-the-scenes documentary Anatomy of the twister; feature-length audio commentary by director Jan de Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier; music video: Van Halen's Humans being; theatrical trailer.
Credits Director of photography, Jack N. Green; editor, Michael Kahn; music, Mark Mancina ; production designer, Joseph Nemec ; costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick ; casting by Risa Bramon Garcia ; visual effects supervisor, Stefen Fangmeier ; visual effects producer, Kim Bromley Carson.
Cast Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Davies, Todd Field, Zach Grenier, Nicholas Sadler, Abraham Benrubi, Jake Busey.
Summary A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Audience Rating: PG-13; for intense depiction of very bad weather.
System Details DVD; widescreen presented in a "letterbox" format preserving the scope aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition; enhanced for widescreen TV's; dual-layer format; region 1; Dolby digital, Dolby surround 5.1.
Language English or French dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Subject Tornadoes -- Oklahoma -- Drama.
Tornado warning systems -- Oklahoma -- Drama.
Severe storms -- Oklahoma -- Forecasting -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Oklahoma -- Drama.
Oklahoma -- Drama.
DVD-Video discs.
Genre/Form Disaster films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Action and adventure films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Bont, Jan de.
Hunt, Helen, 1963-
Paxton, Bill, 1955-2017.
Gertz, Jami.
Elwes, Cary, 1962-
Smith, Lois, 1930-
Ruck, Alan, 1956-
Hoffman, Philip Seymour, 1967-2014.
Busey, Jake.
Grenier, Zach, 1954-
Benrubi, Abraham, 1969-
Sadler, Nicholas.
Davies, Jeremy, 1969-
Field, Todd, 1964-
Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008.
Martin, Anne-Marie.
Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954-
Bryce, Ian, 1956-
Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
Molen, Gerald R.
MacDonald, Laurie.
Fangmeier, Stefen, 1960-
Green, Jack N., 1946-
Parkes, Walter F.
Kahn, Michael, 1935-
Mancina, Mark.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Amblin Entertainment (Firm)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 1419892797
9781419892790
Standard No. 883929106042
Music No. 1000118238 Warner Home Video

 
    
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