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Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston. It is loosely based on the 1981 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg and the first installment of the Jumanji franchise. The film was written by Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain and stars Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, and Bebe Neuwirth.

The story centers on a supernatural board game that releases jungle-based hazards upon its players with every turn they take. As a boy in 1969, Alan Parrish became trapped inside the game itself while playing with his friend Sarah Whittle. Twenty-six years later, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game, begin playing and then unwittingly release the now-adult Alan. After tracking down Sarah, the quartet resolves to finish the game in order to reverse all of the destruction it has caused and return back to normal.

The film was released on December 15, 1995, to mixed reviews, but was a box office success, grossing $263 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $65 million. It was the 10th highest-grossing film of 1995.

The film spawned an animated television series, which aired from 1996 to 1999, and was followed by a related film, Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and two direct sequels, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), with Columbia Pictures taking over distribution for all subsequent films.uyh

In 1869, near Brantford, New Hampshire, two boys named Caleb and Benjamin bury a chest.

A century later in 1969, Alan Parrish escapes a group of bullies and retreats to a shoe company owned by his father, Sam. He meets Carl Bentley, an employee, who reveals a new shoe prototype he made himself. Alan misplaces the shoe and damages a machine, but Carl takes responsibility and loses his job. After being attacked by the bullies, who also steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site. He finds the chest containing a board game called Jumanji and brings it home.

At home, after an argument with his father about attending a boarding school called Cliffside and wanting to carry on the family tradition, Alan plans to run away. Sarah Whittle, his friend, arrives to return his bicycle, and Alan shows her Jumanji and invites her to play. With each roll of the dice, the game piece moves by itself and a cryptic message describing the roll's outcome appears in the crystal ball at the centre of the board. Sarah reads the first message on the board and hears an eerie sound. Alan then unintentionally rolls the dice after being startled by the chiming clock; a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a 5 or 8, and he is sucked into the game. Afterwards, a swarm of bats appears and chases Sarah out of the mansion.

26 years later in 1995, Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the vacant Parrish mansion with their aunt Nora, after their parents died in an accident on a ski trip in Canada the winter before. The next day, Judy and Peter find Jumanji in the attic and begin playing it. Their rolls summon big mosquitoes and a swarm of monkeys. The game rules state that everything will be restored when the game ends, so they continue playing. Peter's next roll, a 5, releases a lion and an adult Alan. As Alan makes his way out, he meets Carl, who is now working as a police officer since 1974. Alan, Judy, and Peter go to the now-abandoned shoe factory where a homeless man tells Alan that Sam abandoned the business to search for Alan after his disappearance, until his death in 1991 along with his wife. Eventually, the factory closed which caused Brantford's economic decline.

Realizing that they need Sarah to finish the game, the three locate Sarah, now suffering mental trauma from both Jumanji and Alan's disappearance, and persuade her to join them. Sarah's first move releases fast-growing carnivorous vines, and Alan's next move releases a big-game hunter named Van Pelt, whom Alan first met in the jungle. Judy's next roll summons a herd of various animals, causing a stampede, and a pelican steals the game. Peter retrieves it, but Alan is arrested by Carl. Back in town, the stampede wreaks havoc, and Van Pelt steals the game. Peter, Sarah, and Judy track Van Pelt to a department store, where they set booby traps to subdue him and retrieve the game, while Alan, after revealing his identity to Carl, is set free. When the four return to the mansion, it is now completely overrun by jungle wildlife. They release one calamity after another until Van Pelt arrives. When Alan drops the dice, he lands the winning roll, which causes everything that happened as a result of the game to be reversed.

Alan and Sarah return to 1969 as children but have memories of the events that took place. Alan reconciles with Sam, who tells his son that he does not have to attend boarding school if he doesn't want to. Before leaving, Sam is informed by Alan that it was him who was responsible for the shoe that damaged the factory's machine. After coming to the realization that Judy and Peter haven't been born yet, Alan and Sarah throw Jumanji into a river, then share a kiss.

In an alternative 1995, Alan and Sarah are married and expecting their first child. Alan's parents are still alive and successfully running the family business. He and Sarah see Judy and Peter and meet their parents Jim and Martha for the first time during a Christmas party. Alan offers Jim a job and convinces them to cancel their upcoming ski trip, averting their deaths.

Elsewhere, two young French-speaking girls hear drumbeats while taking a walk on a beach, as Jumanji lies partially buried in the sand.

Directed by Joe Johnston

Produced by

Scott Kroopf

William Teitler

Screenplay by

Jonathan Hensleigh

Greg Taylor

Jim Strain

Story by

Greg Taylor

Jim Strain

Chris Van Allsburg

Based on Jumanji

by Chris Van Allsburg

Starring

Robin Williams

Kirsten Dunst

David Alan Grier

Bonnie Hunt

Jonathan Hyde

Bebe Neuwirth

Music by James Horner

Cinematography Thomas E. Ackerman

Edited by Robert Dalva

Production

company

TriStar Pictures

Interscope Communications

Teitler Film

Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing

Release date

December 15, 1995

Running time

104 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $65 million

Box office $262.8 million

Robin Williams as Alan Parrish, a man trapped in Jumanji for 26 years

Adam Hann-Byrd as Young Alan

Kirsten Dunst as Judith "Judy" Shepherd, Peter's older sister

David Alan Grier as Carl Bentley, an employee at Sam's shoe factory and Alan's friend

Bonnie Hunt as Sarah Whittle, Alan's friend who is traumatized by Jumanji and Alan's disappearance

Laura Bell Bundy as Young Sarah

Jonathan Hyde as Van Pelt, a big-game hunter from Jumanji

Hyde also portrays Samuel Parrish, Alan's father

Bebe Neuwirth as Nora Shepherd, Judy and Peter's aunt; Neuwirth briefly reprised her character in Jumanji: The Next Level

Bradley Pierce as Peter Shepherd, Judy's younger brother

James Handy as The Exterminator

Patricia Clarkson as Carol-Anne Parrish, Alan's mother

Malcolm Stewart as James Shepherd, Judy and Peter's father

Annabel Kershaw as Martha Shepherd, Judy and Peter's mother

Gary Joseph Thorup as Billy Jessup, the bullies' cowardly leader

Frank Welker provides the special vocal effects

Commercial songs from film, but not on soundtrack

"Una Voce Poco Fa"

Written by Gioacchino Rossini

Performed by Agnes Baltsa and the Vienna Symphony

Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Ian Marin

"Night & Day"

Written by Cole Porter

"Serenade in D, Op. 44"

Composed by Antonín Dvořák

Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Conducted by Neville Marriner

"Locomotive Breath"

Written by Ian Anderson

Performed by Jethro Tull

"The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" (Theme from Gilligan's Island)

Written by Sherwood Schwartz & George Wyle

"Dark Continent (Native Terror)"

Composed by James Horner

" Main theme of The Soundtrack