
The Dark Side of Nature.
Plot outline
Personal notes
Cast
- Helen Hunt
- Bill Paxton
- Cary Elwes
- Jami Gertz
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Lois Smith
- Alan Ruck
- Sean Whalen
- Scott Thomson
- Todd Field
- Joey Slotnick
- Wendle Josepher
- Jeremy Davies
- Zach Grenier
- Gregory Sporleder
- Patrick Fischler
- Nicholas Sadler
- Ben Weber
- Anthony Rapp
- Erik LaRay Harvey
- Abraham Benrubi
- Jake Busey
- Melanie Hoopes
- J. Dean Lindsay
- Dan Kelpine
- Sharonlyn Morrow
- Richard Lineback
- Rusty Schwimmer
- Alexa PenaVega
- Taylor Gilbert
- Bruce Wright
- Gary England
- Jeff Lazalier
- Rick Mitchell
- John Thomas Rhyne
- Paul Douglas
- Samantha McDonald
- Jennifer L. Hamilton
- Anneke de Bont
- Thomas E. Bentley
- Darryl Cox
- Mark Falvo
- Ben Jackson
- David Dillinger Jefferis
- Brad Masters
- April Warren
Plots
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
The year is 1969. In Oklahoma County, thunderstorms roll across an open plain, and in a remote farmhouse young Jo and her family are about to go to sleep, but her father is watching a tornado warning on TV. The TV warns that the imminent tornado may be an F5, the strongest known. Not long after the family reaches the storm cellar the huge twister hits, passing right over top of them & killing her father. 27 years later, Jo is now a storm scientist, trying to develop a tornado warning system with her soon-to-be-ex, Bill Harding. Multiple attempts fail for one reason or another, and their team sees a tremendous amount of damage & death. Then, one time, they find themselves In the damage path of a huge F5 tornado. Can they succeed in launching their test equipment, then escape the deadly storm in time?
When Bill goes to have Jo sign the divorce papers so he can marry his new girl, Melissa, Jo finds a collection of record breaking tornados and Bill follows along, soon his duties shift from divorcing Jo to helping her with record breaking technology to create a better warning system.