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Twister is a 1996 American disaster film directed by Jan de Bont and written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, and Cary Elwes. Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Davies, Todd Field, Zach Grenier, Nicholas Sadler, Abraham Benrubi, Jake Busey, and Scott Thomson also star in supporting roles. Its plot follows a group of storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe outbreak in Oklahoma.

Amblin Entertainment co-founder Steven Spielberg was initially attached to direct, and several directors were in talks to direct before De Bont signed on after leaving Godzilla; Spielberg would executive-produce the film with Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Molen. Filming was done across Oklahoma, with several key sequences filmed in Fairfax, Ralston, Maysville, Guthrie, and Stillwater. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) handled the visual effects and animation of the tornadoes, with the Dynamotion software being used to develop the basis of the digital tornadoes.

Twister premiered in Westwood, Los Angeles, on May 8, 1996, and was theatrically released on May 10, 1996, in the United States and Canada by Warner Bros. Pictures, and internationally by Universal Pictures through United International Pictures. The film grossed over $499 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1996, and selling an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics and Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound. It is also notable for being among the first films to be released on DVD in the United States. A standalone sequel, Twisters, was released in 2024.

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