Twister
(DVD Video) 

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.

Special features: Disc 1: Commentary by director Jan De Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier; theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: "Chasing the storm: Twister revisited" new featurette; "Nature tech: tornadoes anatomy of a twister:" The History Channel documentary; "HBO First Look: the making of Twister" featurette; Van Halen 'Humans being' music video.

Director of photography, Jack N. Green ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, Mark Mancina ; production designer, Joseph Nemec III.

Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes.

Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. 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 has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the funnel of the tornado. They hope to obtain data to create an improved weather warning system. In order to get the sensors to work, the team must intercept the twister.

MPAA rating: PG-13; intense depiction of very bad weather.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (Letterbox, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer.

These DVDs are copy protected and may be played only on licensed devices.

English or dubbed French dialogue, English or French subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.