Synopsis Jumanji
In 1869, two boys bury a chest in a forest near Keene, New Hampshire. A century later, 12-year-old Alan Parrish flees from a group of bullies to a shoe factory owned by his father, Sam, where he meets his friend Carl Bentley, one of Sam's employees. When Alan accidentally damages a machine with a prototype sneaker Carl hopes to present, Carl takes the blame and loses his job. Outside the factory, after the bullies beat up Alan and steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site and finds the chest, containing a board game called Jumanji.
Alan takes the game home and attempts to run away after having an argument with his father about attending a boarding school. However, his friend Sarah Whittle gives his bike back. The two begin playing Jumanji, which acts strangely: When a player rolls the dice, the player's piece moves itself and a message appears on the board. When Alan makes his first move, he is horrifically sucked into the game, terrifying Sarah. Although the message states that he will be freed when a five or an eight is rolled, Sarah abandons the game after being attacked by bats.
Twenty-six years later, Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the Parrish house with their aunt Nora after losing their parents in a car crash in Canada. Judy and Peter hear Jumanji's drumbeats and play the game in the attic, and as a result, giant mosquitoes attack them, and reddish-orangemonkeys destroy their kitchen. Realizing that everything will be restored when the game ends, they continue the game despite the danger. Peter rolls a five, releasing both a lion and Alan, who is now an adult. Alan locks the lion in a bedroom, then goes to the now closed shoe factory. On the way, he meets Carl, working as a police officer and clearly disliking his job, and discovers that the town's economy was devastated by the factory's closure. In the factory, a homeless man reveals that Sam abandoned the business to search for his son until his death in 1991. After Sam's death, his wife and Alan's mother Carol-Anne continued the search until her own death three months later.
Alan joins the game with Judy and Peter, but when rolling the dice has no effect on the board, Alan realizes they are continuing the same game that he and Sarah started years ago. They find Sarah, traumatized by Alan's disappearance for years. Alan tricks her into rejoining the game and the following moves release fast-growing vines and a giant deadly man-eating "pod". After dealing with the pod and vines, Alan rolls and a big-game hunter named Van Pelt who is intent on killing Alan emerges as he is a product of the game itself. On Judy's next turn a stampede (rhinoceros,African elephants, zebras and pelicans) wrecks the house. Among other things, Peter gradually transforms into a monkey after trying to cheat; Peter, Sarah and Judy battle Van Pelt (a murderous game-hunter who resembles Alan's father) in a local department store; a monsoon floods the house; 2 crocodiles attack the group; Alan is sucked into the floor by quicksand; an earthquake breaks the house in two; large poisonous spiderscome out and Judy is shot with a poisonous barb from a flower. Finally, Alan wins the game just in time when Van Pelt is about to shoot him, causing the jungle elements and Van Pelt to be sucked back into the board in a form of a whirlwind.
Alan and Sarah then find themselves back in 1969 again as children, but with full memories of their lives after they started playing. Alan becomes terrified, thinking that Judy and Peter are still in the attic, but Sarah reminds him that it's still 1969, before Judy and Peter are even born. Sarah gives their game tokens to Alan as a way of showing that they were never in the game. The two chain up the Jumanji board and throw it into a river. Sarah then kisses Alan, and they begin a romantic relationship. Alan later reconciles with his father Sam and admits his responsibility for damaging the machine in the plant. Carl gets his job back, and Sam allows his son to attend a local school if he wishes to do so.
In the present day, Alan and Sarah are married and expecting their first child. Alan has taken over the shoe business, Carl still works in the factory as the plant supervisor, and Sam is retired, but still alive. Judy, Peter, and their parents meet with Alan and Sarah at a Christmas party, where Alan and Sarah offer the children's father a job in the shoe company and discourage them from taking the ski trip, as the accident occurred in the previous timeline which was a car crash in Canada.
At a beach in another part of the Earth, two French-speaking young girls hear drumbeats while walking, unaware that the Jumanji board is half-buried in the sand.
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