Directed by:
Jan de Bont

Starring:
Helen Hunt as Jo Harding
Bill Paxton as Bill Harding
Jami Gertz as Dr. Melissa Reeves
Cary Elwes as Dr. Jonas Miller
Lois Smith as Aunt Meg
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty
Alan Ruck as Rabbit
Sean Whalen as Sanders
Scott Thomson as Preacher
Todd Field as Beltzer

• In the one scene where the cows are flying in the air, just before that when they are driving on the dirt road which is only on lane heading toward the twister if you look out the back window you will see a van drive by on pavement and the sun shining ...They are coming from inside the twister... - Michele

• Another part is near the end when there truck goes trough a house, you will see that a huge hole is smashed in the windshield of the truck, when they come out the window is fixed... - Michele

• There's an odometer in a shot of the truck's dashboard, near the beginning of the film. A few minutes later, after the truck has been driven quite a distance, the odometer is seen again, now showing several hundred less miles than before.

• A pair of binoculars stay firmly in place on a dashboard no matter how much the truck is tossed and turned.

• The story is supposed to take place in Oklahoma, yet all the roadsigns say Texas.
  

• When Billy and Jo anchor themselves to the pole, the tornado passes right over them, and when it's gone, you see Jo, and she still has her headphone around her neck! You'd think the twister would have taken them! - Kelli

• In one scene, when they were driving towards the tornado, there was a terrible rain if you were looking from inside - you can hardly see through the windows. But, if you were looking from outside, it was hardly raining. Some weather, ha? - gabip

• Ah, the miracle of DVD and precise freeze frame! If you look closely, after Jo and Bill emerge from the tanker truck explosion, you can see the stuntwoman lowering into her lap what appears to be a white towel which I guess was flame retardant to protect her. - Rick

• In the scene where Jo and Bill are fighting and Dusty and Melissa can overhear them, watch Melissa's hair. It miraculously goes from dry to wet to dry several times. - FlyBoy

• In the scene just before the fuel truck explodes the windows on bills truck are down and as the drive through the flame the windows are up but after that they are down again. - Scott

• During the scene set in 1969 at the beginning of the movie, Jo's father says that the tornado "might be an F5" referring to the Fujita scale for tornado strength. Dr. Fujita did not create the scale which bears his name until 1971. [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/satgallery/educational/fujita.html] - Traveller

• In the scene where the phone pole drops on the back of Bills truck the tail gate gets knocked off the truck. The very next scene it is back on the truck. I do not think they had time to put it back on when a Twister was coming at them. - Loony

• Near the very beginning (after the young "Joe" scene where her dad gets killed by the F5), you see the camera pan over fields and meadows up to Billy's (Bill Paxton) new Red truck. As the camera gets closer, you see (and very clearly) the helicopter with the mounted camera flying beside of the red truck. - Chad Austin

• You can really only see this in the standard VHS: When Jo is at the trailer park signing the papers, look closely at a couple of her signatures, they read Helen Hunt. - Joe

• Near the end of the movie when they are going around all the big farm equipment and Jo is yelling "right, left, right, etc." the farm equipment smashes the windshield, then after they get past all of it the windshield is fine. - Dani

• Each time they show a different tornado on the dopplar, it's the same image and looks like the Pepsi symbol. - Lisa

• In the scene where they are driving the truck and the cow flies by the truck, you can see a minivan driving by in the back window and the sun is shining, although they are driving toward twin tornadoes. - AliRey

• In the part when the house rolls into the middle of the road, a bathroom is shown. Everything is still in place as if the house had not moved at all!

• When all the crews are at the cafe they pass past all the black trucks you can see if you pause or slow mode see the camera man and camera in reflection off the door of a truck. - Teacherman

• When Joe and Bill are driving the truck through the corn field (or whatever) straight at the F5 Tornado you can clearly see the mounted camera on the left hand side. (VHS) - Smurfette

• I haven't seen Twister in a while, but I have seen 'The Shining' recently. During the drive-in movie scene, the first showing of the film is the little boy in his bike facing those twin girls. Then, the main characters talk..yada yada yada...the twister is coming! This whole process is 10-15 minutes. When the tornado hits the movie screen, it shows Jack Nicholson using his ax to get to his wife. I think the time between the boy looking at the twins and Jack with the ax is 1-1.5 hours apart. So either the people attending the drive-in movie were upset at the employees fast-forwarding 'The Shining', or this is a goof. - Adam

• Near the beginning when Bill and Jo are running from the tornado in Jo's yellow Jeep and hit the bridge they get under the bridge. While they're under it you see the front of the truck, some shots it's wrecked and some shots it not In the scene where the house rolls out in front of Bill and Jo, it is on its side, but when they drive through the bathroom and bedroom they are right side up. (VHS) - Scooty

• (Factual errors) When the tornado hits the drive in, if the screen is really being projected on, then the movie should also appear on the tornado as it takes down the screen. - Jon

• (Audio/visual unsynchronised) In the scene where Jo & Bill are under a small bridge (jeep scene), Bill says something like "find something to hold onto" and she says "I know", you hear her say it, but her mouth never moves. Plus, my question is, when the twin tornados spun the truck around and around, wouldn't the air pressure take away their oxygen and/or implode the windows? Just curious. Also they mention the fugita (spell?) only goes to F-5? I thought it went higher than that? - Jewelz75

Commented Goofs

• After the tornado passes Bill and Jo which were hiding under the bridge. Jo asks Bill where's my truck and the truck falls from the sky in front of Mellissa which is driving Bill's Dodge pickup if you notice when she swerves to miss the fallen truck the driver's side window is up, but when they run to the truck to see if she is alright the driver's window is down. Mellissa must be a fast thinking lady to swerve to miss a truck and roll down the window at the same time. - Eddie
  • Comment: The window is down when Melissa drives around Joe's yellow truck that fell and the window is up when crew runs to Melissa's red truck. - Aaron

• There is no possible way for the two main characters to survive at the end. The tornado was an F-5, and even a blade of grass would have cut through them. There were so many things around, and yet they wind up with a few scratches. Additionally, they would have been ripped in two with what they anchored themselves with. - Sandy
  • Comment: Actually, when inside a tornado, the air is very calm - hardly windy in fact. I find it very surprising that Bill and Jo were even lifted up while they were inside an F5 tornado. Only the walls of the tornado are dangerous - they should have been killed when the wall of the tornado passed over them. - Beck1

• Everybody in this movie seems to know a thing or two about tornados right. Well, when there is a tornado coming close to your house, it is unwise to shut up all the windows a doors. This is because the house could go airborne as the air pressure inside of the house can be different to that which is outside. - Shril
  • Comment: This is not exactly true. People should be more concerned with flying debris than pressure changes. - Betty

Corrected Goofs

• There are several scientific errors in this movie: in the scene with the cow flying through the air, there is no way that the cow would still be alive, the pressure would have killed it. - Sandy
  • Correction: Actually there has been reports of cows flying and survive it all. - matty

Explained Goofs

• Right before the tanker explodes and the truck goes through it, the windows are down, but when you see it come out, the windows are up! - Kelli
  • Explanation: Possibly they rolled up the windows as to not take in the flames - there's an idea! - Ignite

• During the scene where they are looking at the tornado through the radar, they say "it's going green", but if you look at the radar, it's the PEPSI symbol, hmmm. - Ken
  • Explanation: When they say "it's going green", the reference is not related to the radar, but actually to the physical appearance of the storm. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/green-thunderstorms.htm. And yes, we do see the Pepsi symbol appear more than a few times. :) - Logan