Jumanji

"It's a jungle in here."

1995 1h 44m EN

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7.2

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56%

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7.1

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★7.2TMDB · 11,613🥫56%Rotten Tomatoes●41Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 408,456

AdventureFantasyFamily

Synopsis

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When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.

“It's a jungle in here.”

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Cast

Robin Williams
Alan Parrish
Kirsten Dunst
Judy
Bradley Pierce
Peter
Bonnie Hunt
Sarah
Jonathan Hyde
Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Bebe Neuwirth
Nora
David Alan Grier
Bentley
Adam Hann-Byrd
Young Alan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joe Johnston
Writers: Jim Strain, Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor
Languages: English, French
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 4.0× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Jumanji Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joe Johnston, shot by Thomas E. Ackerman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Robert Dalva shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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The take

Joe Johnston directs. Thomas E. Ackerman behind the camera. James Horner scores. Robert Dalva cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French.

Trivia

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1Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 4.0× over at the box office.
331 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
5Part of the "Jumanji Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Joe Johnston, shot by Thomas E. Ackerman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by James Horner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Robert Dalva shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "It's a jungle in here.".
11IMDB entry: tt0113497 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1211,613 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 11 themes, including "based on novel or book", "giant insect", "board game", "disappearance".

The technical file

Cinematography: Thomas E. Ackerman
Original score: James Horner
Editing: Robert Dalva
Production design: James D. Bissell
Costume design: Jane E. Still
Makeup / hair: Sandy Cooper
VFX supervisor: Stephen L. Price
Sound: Gary Rydstrom
Stunt coordinator: Betty Thomas Quee
Runtime: 104 min · 1h 44m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $65,000,000
Box office: $262,821,940
Return: 404% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Jumanji (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes: 56% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 41/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 408,456 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

4 wins & 11 nominations total

Part of

Jumanji Collection

A series of films that follow several people playing a strange board game that unleashes all the creatures from the game's jungle into our world. The board game later turns into a video game, and when booted up, the players become the avatars of the characters they have selected. The only way to stop the game is to beat it and call out its name. All films are based on a book written by Chris Van Allsburg in 1981.

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John Chard2019-03-05
★ 7/10
Throw the dice and take a turn, Jumanji made the critics gurn. Jumanji is directed by Joe Johnston and based on Chris Van Allsburg's short story of the same name. It stars Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce and Jonathan Hyde. The story is about a weird board game that when played unleashes hazards from the jungle with every throw of the dice. Once you have started playing you have to finish the game for normality to be resumed. Simple in plot and coming off as an excuse to show off some impressive effects -said the critics - Jumanji defied the critics of the time to become a box office winner and a family favourite. Enough of a favourite to spawn a sequel (Zathura 2005), an animated TV series and a board game. In truth the film is reliant on the effects to entertain, with the cast (all competent and enjoyable) merely lurching from one perilous throw of the dice to another. But to call the film shallow is wrong and ignorant. There's flecks of bad parenting, peer pressure, grief and bullying, while the impact of a missing child on one town is a noteworthy addition to the story line. You wonder if those critics actually paid attention during their free viewings? Yes it's berserker family fun, but it's not without worth in the writing either. Besides which, for the action set pieces and the laughs, they alone mean the film has its merits. 7/10
Andre Gonzales2023-07-06
★ 7/10
The original movie. Robin Williams makes this movie funny. Honestly without him the movie would be nothing.
CinemaSerf2025-09-10
★ 7/10
I’d watched this for about twenty minutes before I realised that it was Kirsten Dunst who was keeping her panic-stricken younger brother “Peter” (Bradley Pierce) as they discover a rather elegant looking board game in their new home. We already know that this used to be the lavish home of the shoe-making “Parrish” family and that playing the self same game, a quarter of a century earlier the young “Alan” had had a mishap that had caused a mystery that prevailed to this day. Anyway, the two youngsters having a go nowadays soon realise that this isn’t like Cleudo or Monopoly, this one has an habit of delivering quirky rhymes after each throw followed by lions, monkeys, deadly mozzies - indeed anything that can trash the town, their house and the brand new police car of “ Clive” (David Alan Grier). Luckily, he throws a five and that presents them with the long-missing lad (Robin Williams) clad in leaves and adept at playing this thing from the inside. All the need to do is find his playing companion from back in the day (Bonnie Hunt) and complete the game. How hard can it be? Well aside from all the carnage, the game also presents them with the shotgun toting, “Quatermain”-esque, “Van Pelt” (the multi-tasking Jonathan Hyde) who is determined to see them all as trophies on his wall. Now they have to stay alive, finish the game and hopefully right some wrongs. No, there isn’t any jeopardy, but Williams, Dunst and the enthusiastic Pierce keep this quickly paced family adventure rollicking along nicely. Sure, Williams always did over-egg his roles, but the kids and Hyde work well as a foil for that and the rolls of the dice easily introduce a new chaotic scenario for each of them as they try to cross the winning post. It’s good family fun that whizzes along in a sort of “Smokey and the Bandit” meets “Tarzan” fashion.