<P> A century later in 1969, 12 - year - old Alan Parrish escapes a group of bullies led by Billy Jessup and retreats to his father Sam's shoe factory . He meets his friend, Carl Bentley, one of his father's employees, who reveals a new shoe prototype he made by himself . Alan misplaces the shoe and damages a machine, but Carl takes responsibility and gets fired . After being beaten up by Jessup's group, who also steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site . He finds the chest containing a board game called "Jumanji" and brings it home . </P> <P> At home, after an argument with Sam about attending Cliffside, a boarding school for boys, Alan plans to run away . His best friend, Sarah Whittle, arrives to return his bicycle, and Alan shows her Jumanji and invites her to play . With each roll of the dice, 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 . Sarah reads the first message on the board and hears an eerie sound . Alan then unintentionally rolls the dice after being startled by the chiming clock; a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a 5 or 8 . Alan is sucked into the game, and a swarm of bats chases Sarah out of the mansion . </P> <P> Twenty - six years later in 1995, after their parents died in an accident on a ski trip, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the vacant Parrish mansion with their aunt Nora . Soon after, Judy and Peter find Jumanji in the attic and begin playing it . Their rolls release a swarm of big mosquitoes and a troop of monkeys . The game rules state that everything will be restored when the game ends, so they continue playing . Peter's next roll releases a lion and an adult Alan . As Alan makes his way around town, he encounters Carl, who is now working as a police officer . Alan, Judy, and Peter go to the now - closed shoe factory, where a derelict tells Alan that after his disappearance, Sam abandoned the business and searched for Alan until his death just four years earlier . </P> <P> Realizing they need Sarah to finish the game, the three locate her, now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after Alan's disappearance, and they persuade her to join them . Sarah's roll releases fast - growing carnivorous plants, and Alan's next roll releases a big - game hunter named Van Pelt . Judy's next roll releases a stampede of various animals, and a pelican steals the game . Peter retrieves it, but Alan is arrested by Carl . Later, Van Pelt catches up to Alan's friends and steals the game . Sarah, Judy, and Peter follow Van Pelt to a department store, where they retrieve the game, dodge him, and reunite with Alan, who has managed to hijack Carl's car . When the four return to the mansion, it is now completely overrun by jungle wildlife . They release and dodge numerous calamities, until Van Pelt arrives and confronts Alan . When Alan drops the dice, he wins the game which causes everything that happened as a result of the game to be reversed . </P>

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