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In 1969, Alan Parrish lives in Brantford, New Hampshire, with his parents, Sam and Carol. One day, he escapes a group of bullies and retreats to Sam's shoe factory. His friend Carl Bentley reveals a new shoe prototype he made himself. Alan inadvertently damages the shoe after misplacing it on a conveyor belt, but Carl takes responsibility and is dismissed. After the bullies attack Alan and steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site. He finds a board game called Jumanji, which was buried a century earlier, and brings it home.
That evening, after arguing with Sam about attending a local boarding school, Alan plans to run away, but his friend, Sarah Whittle, returns his bicycle. Alan shows her Jumanji and invites her to play. With each dice roll, the game piece moves by itself, and a cryptic message describing the roll's outcome appears in the crystal ball at the center of the board. After Alan inadvertently rolls a five, a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a five or eight, and he is sucked into the game. Shortly after, a swarm of bats pursues Sarah out of the mansion.
Twenty-six years later, Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the now-vacant Parrish mansion with their aunt Nora after their parents died in an accident on a ski trip in Canada the winter before. Judy and Peter begin playing Jumanji after discovering it in the attic. Their rolls summon giant mosquitoes and swarms of monkeys. The game rules state everything will be restored when the game ends, so they continue playing. Peter rolls a five, releasing a lion and an adult Alan. While making his way out, Alan encounters Carl, now working as a police officer. At the abandoned shoe factory, Alan, Judy, and Peter discover Sam abandoned the shoemaking business to search for his son after his disappearance until his 1991 death. Eventually, the factory's closure sent Brantford into economic decline.
Realizing they need Sarah to finish the game, the three locate Sarah, now haunted by 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 game's inner world. The next roll summons a stampede of various animals, and a pelican steals the game. Peter retrieves it, but Carl arrests Alan. As the stampede wreaks havoc in town, Van Pelt steals the game.
Peter, Sarah, and Judy travel to a nearby discount store and rigs booby traps to subdue Van Pelt and retrieve the game, while Alan is released after revealing his identity to Carl. The four return to the mansion, now overrun by jungle wildlife. They release one calamity after another until Van Pelt arrives. Alan drops the dice and wins the game, which reverses everything that happened as a result of the game.
Alan and Sarah return to 1969, just in time for Alan to reconcile with Sam, who tells him he does not have to attend boarding school. Alan also admits his responsibility for damaging the shoe, and Carl is rehired. Remembering the game's events, Alan and Sarah throw Jumanji into a river and share a kiss.
In the present, Alan and Sarah, now married, are expecting their first child. Alan's parents are still alive, and Alan is now successfully running the family business. Alan and Sarah meet Judy, Peter, and their parents, Jim and Martha, for the first time during a Christmas party. Alan offers Jim a job and convinces them to cancel their ski trip, averting their deaths in the previous timeline.
Meanwhile, two young French-speaking girls hear drumbeats while walking on a beach. Jumanji is seen lying partially buried in the sand.
Cast:
Robin Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd - Alan Parrish
Bonnie Hunt, Laura Bell Bundy - Sarah Whittle
Bradley Pierce - Peter Shepherd
Kirsten Dunst - Judy Shepherd
Bebe Neuwirth - Nora Shepherd
Jonathan Hyde - Van Pelt, Sam Parrish
David Alan Grier - Carl Bentley
Patricia Clarkson - Carol Parrish
Malcolm Stewart - Jim Shepherd
Annabel Kershaw - Martha Shepherd
Gillian Barber - Mrs. Thomas
Frank Welker - Creature vocals
DIRECTOR
Joe Johnston
PRODUCER(S)
Scott Kroopf
William Teitler
DISTRIBUTOR
TriStar Pictures
SCREENPLAY
Greg Taylor
Jonathan Hensleigh
Jim Strain
STORY
Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg
STUDIO
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