Title

 Jumanji – adaption of the 1981 children’s book by Khris Van Allsburg

Genre

 Action and Adventure

Production details

 Year of production: 15/12/1995

 Director: Joe Johnston
 Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, Jim Strain, Chris Van Allsburg
 Producer: Scott Kroopt, William Teitler
 Production Company: Interscope Communications/Teitler Film
 Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes

Cast

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

 Bonnie Hunt as Sarah Whittle, Alan's friend who is devastated by his disappearance
 Kirsten Dunst as Judy Shepherd, Peter's older sister
 Bradley Pierce as Peter Shepherd, Judy's younger brother

Plot

 Beginning
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In 1869, near Brantford, New Hampshire, two boys 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 by 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 Sam about attending a boarding school, Alan plans to run away.
Sarah Whittle, his friend and girlfriend of one of the bullies, arrives to return his bicycle, and Alan
shows her Jumanji and invites her to play. With each roll of the dice, the game pieces move by
themselves and a cryptic message describing the roll's outcome appears in the crystal ball at the
center 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 five or eight, and he is sucked into the game. Afterwards, a swarm
of bats appears and chases Sarah out of the mansion.
26 years later, Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the vacant Parrish mansion with their aunt Nora,
after their parents died in a car crash while on a ski trip in Canada the previous winter. The next day,
Judy and Peter find Jumanji in the attic and begin playing it. Their rolls summon big mosquitos 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 releases a lion and an adult Alan. As Alan makes his way out,
he meets Carl, who is now working as a police officer. Alan, Judy, and Peter go to the shoe factory
that Sam used to own, where a homeless man tells Alan that his father abandoned the business and
searched for Alan until his death just four years earlier.
Realizing that they need her to finish the game, the three locate Sarah, now severely traumatized
by Jumanji and Alan's disappearance, and persuade her to join them. Sarah's roll releases fast-
growing carnivorous vines, and Alan's next roll releases a big-game hunter named Van Pelt, who
starts hunting Alan. Judy's next roll releases a stampede, and a pelican steals the game. Peter
retrieves it, but Alan is arrested by Carl. Later, Van Pelt catches up to Alan's friends and steals the
game. Peter, Sarah, and Judy follow Van Pelt to a department store, where they fight him (destroying
everything and causing chaos in the process), retrieve the game, and reunite with Alan. When the
four return to the mansion, it is now completely overrun by jungle wildlife. They release numerous
calamities, until Van Pelt arrives, and when Alan drops the dice, he wins the game, 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 game's events. Alan reconciles
with his father and admits that he was responsible for the shoe that damaged the factory's machine.
Carl is later rehired, and Sam tells his son that he does not have to attend boarding school. Alan and
Sarah throw Jumanji into a river, then share a kiss.
In a revised 1995, Alan and Sarah are married and expecting their first child, and Alan and Carl run
the factory together, after Alan's parents retired (but are still alive). He and Sarah reunite with 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.
On a beach in France, two young girls hear drumbeats while walking, as Jumanji lies partially buried
in the sand.