| Night of the Twisters | |
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| Genre | Action Drama Family |
| Based on | Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman |
| Written by | Sam Graham Chris Hubbell |
| Directed by | Timothy Bond |
| Starring | Devon Sawa Amos Crawley John Schneider Lori Hallier Laura Bertram David Ferry |
| Music by | Lawrence Shragge |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William F. Burns Anne Marie La Traverse Wayne Rogers |
| Producers | Michael Lambermont Stephen Roloff Sean Ryerson |
| Production locations | Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada |
| Cinematography | Peter Benison |
| Editor | Gary L. Smith |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Production companies | MTM Enterprises Atlantis Communications PorchLight Entertainment International Family Entertainment, Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Network | The Family Channel |
| Release | February 11, 1996 |
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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.[1][2] 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.
- ^ Colleen O'Neill (February 9, 1996). "'Night of Twisters' now a movie". Grand Island Independent. Morris Communications. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
- ^ Colleen O'Neill (February 10, 1996). "Film portrays Grand Island family". Grand Island Independent. Morris Communications. Retrieved November 23, 2015.