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Twister is a 1996 American disaster drama film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.
In the film, a team of storm chasers try to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma. The plot is a dramatized view of research projects like VORTEX of the NOAA and the device, called Dorothy, is copied from TOTO used in the 1980s by NSSL.
Twister is notable for being both the first Hollywood feature film to be released on DVD format and one of the last to be released on HD DVD.Twister has since been released on Blu-ray disc.
Actors: Bak-Ming Wong (producer), Kenji Kawai (composer), Darren Shahlavi (actor), Bak-Ming Wong (producer), Siu-Wong Fan (actor), Simon Yam (actor), Donnie Yen (actor), Kent Cheng (actor), Sammo Hung Kam-Bo (actor), Hark-On Fung (actor), Ke Ming Lin (actor), Meng Lo (actor), Siu-Wong Fan (actor), Wilson Yip (director), Darren Shahlavi (actor),
Plot: Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man, the film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen, who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film, the sequel centers on Ip's movements in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial rule. He attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun, but faces rivalry from other practitioners, including the local master of Hung Ga martial arts.
Keywords: 1950s, actor-performing-own-stunts, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, afterlife, ambush, assassination, asthma, authority, bad-reputation, bailActors: Dan Martin (actor), Holmes Osborne (actor), Christopher Morgan (producer), Benjamin Benedetti (miscellaneous crew), Joseph Lawrence (actor), Jack Lilley (miscellaneous crew), Joseph Lawrence (producer), M.C. Gainey (actor), Robin Thomas (actor), Nicole Marostica (miscellaneous crew), Tom Virtue (actor), Matthew Lawrence (actor), Ian Ogilvy (actor), Andrew Lawrence (actor), Freda Foh Shen (actress),
Plot: A spoiled boy named Michael Woods invites his cousin Tommy Biggs to come and spend time with him in L.A. Tommy is thrilled to see his cousin after years of not seeing each other. When Tommy arrives in L.A. Michael ignores Tommy the whole time and makes him feel unwelcome. Then, the housekeeper has a talk with Michael about ignoring Tommy and Michael says he will take Tommy to Disneyland and they would have a good time. On their way to Disneyland his girlfriend Gina, who is a total drama queen and a snob calls him and asks him if he wants to come see her and her father at the racetrack. Michael says yes and takes Tommy to a Kiddie Zone so Michael could go to the racetrack. On the way back to get Tommy, Michael gets in a car accident and writes down the wrong information to the victim. Michael and Tommy get into an argument when Michael gets home and Tommy leaves the next day. Tommy's mother calls Michael's parents to tell him how rude Michael was to Tommy. Then, Michael's parents punish him by sending him to Tommy and his aunt's ranch to work for a month for free. Michael then learns that the ranch is going to be foreclosed at the end of the month, so Michael and Tommy put their differences aside and work together to save the ranch from foreclosure. Michael also learns a valuable lesson about loyalty and love.
Keywords: animal-in-title, cell-phone, cousin-cousin-relationship, disney-channel-original-movie, farm, farm-life, foreclosure, horse, porsche, rural-settingActors: Monsour Del Rosario (actor), Phillip Ko (actor), Darren Shahlavi (actor), Yukari Ôshima (actress), Jaime Fabregas (composer), Phillip Ko (director), Kai-Ping Cheung (producer), Al Marcelo (writer), Jimmy Ko (actor), Thorsten Nickel (actor), Kwang-su Lee (actor), C. Cheung (editor),
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,Actors: Darren Shahlavi (actor), Phillip Ko (director), Phillip Ko (actor), Niño Muhlach (actor), Monsour Del Rosario (actor), Jaime Fabregas (composer), Kai-Ping Cheung (producer), Wilson Tieng (producer), Winston Ellis (actor), Fu Yung Chou (composer), Patrick D. Choi (producer), January Isaac (actress), Al Marcelo (writer), Jimmy Ko (actor), Tamara Guo (actress),
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,Actors: Paolo Stoppa (actor), Milena Vukotic (actress), Aurelio De Laurentiis (producer), Angela Goodwin (actress), Ennio Antonelli (actor), Franca Scagnetti (actress), Lina Franchi (actress), Alessandro Haber (actor), Renzo Montagnani (actor), Gastone Moschin (actor), Adolfo Celi (actor), Ugo Tognazzi (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Piero De Bernardi (writer), Leonardo Benvenuti (writer),
Plot: The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Keywords: 1970s, commedia-all'italiana, friend, italian-comedy, italy, part-of-trilogy, second-in-trilogyActors: Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), William Boyd (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Stephen Chase (actor), John Elliott (actor), Russell Hayden (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor), Robert McKenzie (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Natalie Moorhead (actress), Harry Sherman (producer), Norman Houston (writer), Clarence E. Mulford (writer), Lesley Selander (director), Dorothy Short (actress),
Plot: Belle Starr has just returned from prison to take over her ranch where her foreman Ringo who is rustling cattle. He is after the herd and has planted his man Twister there. When Hoppy finds the cattle stampeded by Twister, he secretly marks them hoping this will lead him to the rustlers and their buyer.
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Genres: Western,