- Director:
- Jan de bont
- Release Date:
- May 10, 1996
- Studio:
- Warner Bros. & Universal Pictures
- Cast:
- Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith
- Writers:
- Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin
- Rating:
- PG-13
- Runtime:
- 113
- Tagline:
- The Dark Side of Nature.
- Main Genre:
- action
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Summary
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.
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