Twister (1996) Poster

(I) (1996)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Jo takes a shower while listening to a conversation, but you don't see anything but her bare shoulders.

Violence & Gore

  • Non-extreme violence; characters get sucked into tornadoes, car wrecks, paraphernalia flying around hitting people due to extreme wind.
  • A young girl's father is sucked into a tornado and killed.
  • A woman's house has been blown down by a twister. She is trapped underneath debris and has some bloody cuts and gashes.
  • An SUV is hit by a large piece of a destroyed radio tower antenna flying through the windshield, brutally killing the passengers and then is sucked into the tornado and blows up.
  • A man is hiding in a shelter when a hose and a spinning tire hubcap are flying around and his head is cut and a line of blood on his head is shown.
  • A gas tanker is swept around in a tornado and dropped to the ground in front of the main characters' vehicle, where it explodes in a massive fireball.
  • A tornado brutally destroys a small town. Demolishing a drive-in movie theater, throwing vehicles into buildings, and tearing off the roofs of structures.
  • Aftermath of a torn-up neighborhood is a little disturbing.
  • Characters drive through a house in a vehicle, smashing walls and objects till they reach the other side.

Profanity

  • 16 "shit", 5 "hell", 9 "damn", 6 "son of a bitch", 2 "Jesus Christ", 5 "Christ", 4 "Jesus".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film is overall mildly intense.
  • There are many very intense encounters with the tornadoes. On the other hand, if they weren't nervous before, they probably will be after this.
  • Jo, as a little girl, sees her father ripped from a storm cellar and pulled up into a tornado.
  • A group of researchers are driving through a field and onto a road when another large group of cars are cut off by them, it is out of nowhere so it may startle you.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Two men are driving in a truck closer to a tornado, the tornado sends a radio tower through their windshield. It then picks up the truck and spins it around then drops it causing it to explode, killing them both.

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