Twister

Twister is a 1989 comedy film starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott. The film relates the story of the eccentric Cleveland family during the event of a tornado hitting their rural Kansas home. The head of the family is Eugene Cleveland (Stanton), who built a soda pop empire and lives off the proceeds. His two adult children, Maureen (Amis), and Howdy (Glover), still live with him in his mansion along with Mau... more

Twister is a 1989 comedy film starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott. The film relates the story of the eccentric Cleveland family during the event of a tornado hitting their rural Kansas home. The head of the family is Eugene Cleveland (Stanton), who built a soda pop empire and lives off the proceeds. His two adult children, Maureen (Amis), and Howdy (Glover), still live with him in his mansion along with Maureen's daughter Violet and a housekeeper. The siblings Maureen and Howdy are directionless and conspire to find their mother who left unexpectedly when they were young. Howdy finds an envelope with their mother's address and he and Maureen take Violet with them in an effort to track her down. The address on the envelope leads them to a farm in which they meet an unnamed character played by William Burroughs. Burroughs tells them he bought the farm from her and met her once when they were in escrow; that "Jim" spoke with her mostly. When the... less