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Print advertisementWritten byRon McGeeDirected byStarringTheme music composerPhil MarshallCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal language(s)EnglishProductionProducer(s)Richard D. ArredondoCinematographyDonald DuncanEditor(s)Allan LeeRunning time86 minutesProduction company(s)Once Upon A Time FilmsReleaseOriginal releaseJune 9, 2002 (USA)Atomic Twister is an original starring and that was first aired in 2002 on. The plot revolves around a series of that damage a in a small town in western, in turn causing a near- at the plant. Although an F2 tornado did hit the in on 24 June 1998 resulting in the loss of off-site power, and this appears to be the inspiration for the film, the film bears no resemblance to the actual events at Davis-Besse. Contents.Plot A series of tornadoes in West Tennessee cripple the Hellman-Klein Nuclear Power Plant by damaging a power transformer and a generator.
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This leaves the plant with very little power to operate. As an operator shuts down non-vital systems, which include the electric pumps, a second tornado hits the plant, damaging the diesel pumps. Meanwhile, Campbell Maguire , the plant supervisor's young son, is caught in the twisters. His babysitter is killed and he runs away towards the plant on his bike.When the diesel pumps fail, the staff try to restart the electric pumps, but they won't respond. The nuclear reactor overheats, causing coolant to evaporate from the waste pool, threatening to expose radioactive material.
The staff attempt to initiate SCRAM procedures to try to shut down the nuclear reactor, but the computer fails to respond. An operator named Neville goes in to manually shut down the reactor, but is exposed to large amounts of radiation. He is successful, though, and the reactor is shut down, although he is presumably fatally injured by the radiation. Coolant is still rapidly evaporating from the waste pool, meaning the radioactive material will be exposed in half an hour.A local police officer named Jake , a friend of Corrine, searches for Campbell and finds him. Together they make their way to safety at Corinne's request. On the way they discover Jake's girlfriend, Ashley , trapped on a steep hillside in her car.
Jake goes down to rescue her. Both Jake and Ashley are nearly killed when her car slides over the cliff but Campbell saves their lives, risking his own to do it when he is given an option to escape. Jake lauds Campbell as a hero and lets a relieved Corrine know of her son's survival and heroism.Firemen spraying water into the pool only slows the evaporation, however a disused diesel generator is found and they plan to hook it up to the electric pumps.
They order some diesel fuel for it but the truck driver panics at the idea of driving in the adverse weather. Jake, a former truck driver, intercepts the fleeing truck driver and delivers the diesel to the plant himself.
At the plant the heat is starting to prove too much for the firemen and they start to pass out while the water from the hoses is having very little effect. It is mere minutes before the waste pool will be completely exposed. Jake helps the firefighters while Corrine hooks up the fuel and attempts to start the generator. With the generator running the pumps restart and the waste pool starts to refill, and the crisis is averted.
The plant is damaged, but stable. Campbell and Corrine are finally reunited as Jake and Ashley set a date to get married and Neville is led away, eventual fate uncertain although he likely dies of radiation poisoning as the characters said anyone who entered the reactor chamber would get a fatal dose.Cast. as Deputy Jake Hannah. as Corinne Maguire.
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(Picture: Warner Bros Pictures)Long before even the most tech-headed film fan knew what a DVD was, Twister was being pressed onto the revolutionary format.Yes, on March 25 1997, the movie became the first ever cinematic release on Digital Versatile Disc, although a teaser trailer and cast bios were the only special features to be included2. It was also the last film on HD-DVDIt was perhaps only fitting that eleven years after paving the way for the DVD format, Twister would prove to be the farewell for its HD counterpart. US screenwriter and director Joss Whedon (Picture: Getty)The man behind the Avengers films, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly also had a hand in Twister, although he didn’t receive an official credit for his work.The fanboy favourite was brought in to tidy up the script twice, with bronchitis and his wedding cited as the reasons for his departures.5. The original crew revoltedThere was almost as much high drama off screen as there was on it.Five weeks into filming, the crew left the set in protest of director Jan de Bont’s handling of the shoot, which included him knocking over a camera assistant who had missed a cue. Replacement cinematographer Jack N. Green also suffered when a hydraulic house programmed to collapse was mistakenly activated with him inside it.6.
It was recognised at both the Oscars and the Razzies. AdvertisementHowever, actress Jami Gertz and writers Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin weren’t so celebrated, with the former picking up a Razzie nod for Worst Supporting Actress and the latter two winning the rather niche category of Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million.7. It became the source of an urban legendIn 1996 an Ontario drive-in theatre was destroyed by a tornado just hours before it was due to screen Twister.The incident later got twisted into an urban legend in which the theatre was playing Twister at the exact time the tornado struck.8. The sound effects came from an unlikely source.
(Picture: Warner Bros Pictures)Producers initially had the tagline ‘It sucks’ in mind, but after realising that such a phrase may be giving the film’s critics more ammunition than they needed, they wisely changed it to ‘the dark side of nature.’10. Life imitated art14 years after the film’s release, a real tornado struck the Oklahoma farmhouse where several scenes were shot.The owner of the property, a former Oklahoma state senator named J. Berry Harrison, later commented on how much the tornado echoed the one in Twister.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatCinemagoers often complain about trailers revealing too much about the film they’re promoting.However, Twister’s trailer actually included something that wasn’t in the movie at all – a truck tyre hurtling towards the viewer.12. It was the second highest-grossing film of 1996In a year which saw 101 Dalmatians, The Rock and the first Mission Impossible hit cinemas, it’s pretty impressive that Twister managed to outgross them all with a tally of nearly $500m.That figure still pales in comparison to the one film that did beat it at the box-office in 1996, Independence Day’s whopping $817m.13. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s genitals make an appearance. (Picture: Warner Bros Pictures)According to reports, the cinematic release showed Philip Seymour Hoffman inadvertently exposing his genitals for a split second in the scene in which he sits on a lawn chair and lifts his leg in the air.With producers made aware of the rather unfortunate error, Hoffman’s accidental flashing was edited out of the VHS and DVD releases.14. There are several hidden movie referencesThe oil truck seen flying around in the tornado bears the same name, Benthic Petroleum, as the company in James Cameron’s underwater epic The Abyss.
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