Jumanji(1995)

Name: Jumanji
Director: Joe Johnston
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Released: Dec 15, 1995
Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Hyde, Bradley Pierce

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

1h 44m

Release Date: Dec 15, 1995 | Wide

52%
63%
A-
7.1

In 1969, twelve-year-old Alan Parrish rolls the dice on a mysterious board game and vanishes into it. Twenty-six years later, two children find the same game in the same abandoned house and start playing. Alan comes back out — grown, wild, and barely coherent, and so does everything the game has been holding: stampeding animals, a hunter who followed Alan through, monsoon rain, and a jungle swallowing the town whole. The only way out is to finish what was started.

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Releases

Original Release | Dec 15, 1995

2018 NCM Fathom Event (Fathom Entertainment) | Jun 10, 2018

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Box Office Results

All Releases (2)
Total US & Canada:
$100,499,940
Total International
$162,322,000
Total Worldwide:
$262,821,940

Total US & Canada:
$100,475,249
Total Worldwide:
$100,476,482

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Director & Top Cast

Joe Johnston
Director

Robin Williams
Alan Parrish

Kirsten Dunst
Judy Shepherd

Bonnie Hunt
Sarah Whittle

Jonathan Hyde
Van Pelt

Bradley Pierce
Peter Shepherd

Bebe Neuwirth

Nora Shepherd

David Alan Grier

Bentley

Patricia Clarkson

Carol Parrish

Adam Hann-Byrd

Young Alan

Laura Bell Bundy

Actor

James Handy

Exterminator

Gillian Barber

Exterminator

Brandon Obray

Benjamin

Cyrus Thiedeke

Caleb

Gary Joseph Thorup

Billy Jessup

Leonard Zola

Cop

Lloyd Berry

Bum

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,French

Summaries

Plot Summary

Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure directed by Joe Johnston and written by Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, and Jim Strain, based on the 1981 illustrated children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. Robin Williams plays Alan Parrish, a man who has spent twenty-six years inside a magical board game and emerges into the present traumatised, disoriented, and immediately confronted with the chaos his return has unleashed. Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce play Judy and Peter, the siblings who find the game and bring it back to life. Bonnie Hunt plays Sarah Whittle, Alan's childhood friend who witnessed his disappearance and has been trying to move past it ever since. Jonathan Hyde plays both the murderous game hunter Sloane, who materialises from within Jumanji, and Alan's cold, emotionally distant father in flashback — a quiet doubling that gives the film more psychological weight than it is usually credited for. Set almost entirely in the crumbling Parrish family mansion and the wrecked streets of the fictional New Hampshire town of Brantford, the film grounds its supernatural chaos in a domestic scale, keeping the stakes personal. The ILM-produced CGI animals were genuinely groundbreaking for 1995, and Williams' performance gives Alan an emotional reality that elevates the material well beyond standard family adventure. Produced by TriStar Pictures on a budget of approximately $65 million, it grossed around $263 million worldwide and became one of the defining fantasy films of the decade. Rated PG, running 1h 44m. Essential family viewing and a film that holds up considerably better than most of its contemporaries.

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Fun Facts

Jumanji (1995) stars Robin Williams as Alan Parrish, a boy trapped for 26 years inside a magical board game that unleashes jungle dangers into reality when played. In 1969, Alan starts the game with friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt); years later, orphans Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) free him by rolling an 8, triggering stampeding animals, monkeys, and hunter Van Pelt (Jonathan Hyde).