Underplayed Gems

Night of the Twisters (1996)

Night of the Twisters poster
Directed by
Timothy Bond
Genre
disaster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 64 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A family huddles together as a series of powerful tornadoes strike their small Nebraska town. They struggle to survive and find each other during the catastrophic storm.

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What happens

Night of the Twisters is a 1996 made-for-television disaster film that was directed by Timothy Bond. The film premiered on The Family Channel (now Freeform) on February 11, 1996, as the cable channel's first original movie (and appeared on the channel until 2004, under its successor brands Fox Family and ABC Family). Filmed in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, it is based loosely on the 1984 young-adult novel of the same title by Ivy Ruckman, itself a semi-fictionalized account of an outbreak of seven tornadoes that struck Grand Island, Nebraska on June 3, 1980, which killed five people and injured 134 others; the film adaptation, however, is set in the fictional Nebraska town of Blainsworth, which serves as a stand-in for Grand Island. The film centers on a family's struggle to survive a night as a bizarre tornado-producing supercell thunderstorm tracks into and becomes stationary over their town. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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