Jumanji

Jumanji
Directed by	Joe Johnston
Written by	Chris Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor
Produced by	Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Larry J. Franco
Starring	Robin Williams , Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst
Distributed by	Sony
Release date	December 15 1995
Running time	104 minutes
Language	English
Budget	~$65,000,000

Jumanji is a 1995 feature film based on Jumanji, a 1982 children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. The story is about a jungle-themed board game that has real animals and other jungle elements magically appear where the players are when they are playing.

The movie starred Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, and Jonathan Hyde, and was directed by Joe Johnston.

Spin-offs

• There was an animated series based on the movie that ran from 1996-1999 on the UPN network. While it followed the movie's plot, there were a few changes such as the exclusion of Bonnie Hunt's character, each turn the player was given a "game clue" and then sucked into the jungle until they solved their clue, and that Robin Williams's character had to continually search for his "game clue" to escape the board game.
• There was a board game from Milton Bradley with not only the game clues from the movie, but also some new ones (some of the things in the movie game clues have their own like the pelican, elephants, and crocodile).

Jumanji Game Clues

Template:Spoiler Here are the known Jumanji game clues that are in the movie (with the description of what each one is):

• At night they fly, you better run. These winged things are not much fun. - Clue for a flock of bats.
• In the jungle you must wait 'till the dice read five or eight. - Instead of creating something like the other clues, the board absorbs whoever rolled the dice until a 5 or 8 is rolled. Only a circle says this in the board game.
• A tiny bite will make you itch, make you sneeze, make you twitch. - Clue for a swarm of mosquitos.
• This will not be an easy mission. Monkeys slow the expedition. - Clue for the monkeys.
• His fangs are sharp. He likes your taste. Your party better move, Poste Haste. - Clue for a lion.
• They grow much faster than bamboo. Take care or they'll come after you. - Clue for (flowering) crawling vines.
• A hunter from the darkest wild...makes you feel just like a child. - Clue for the hunter Van Pelt.
• Don't be fooled, it isn't thunder. Staying put would be a blunder. - Clue for a stampede. In the board game, it was just rhinos.
• Every month at the quarter moon, there'll be a monsoon, in your lagoon. - Clue for a monsoon. In the board game, the crocodile doesn't come with this.
• Beware of the ground for which you stand. The floor is quicker than the sand. - Clue for quicksand.
• Need a hand? Well, you just wait. We'll help you out, we each have eight. - Clue for large spiders.
• You're almost there with much at stake. Now the ground begins to quake. - Clue for an earthquake.

Non-Board game clues

These aren't in the board game, but are in the movie:

• A law of the jungle has been broken. It will set back more than your token. - Cheating penalty. Not a clue in the board game, but slowly turned Peter into a monkey.
• There is a lesson that you will learn. Sometimes you must go back a turn. - Person must go back to their previous space.

Box office

US Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 100,475,249
+ Other International Takings: $162,322,000
= Gross Worldwide Takings: $262,797,249

External links

• Jumanji at IMDb
• Boxoffice information