<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $65 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $262.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston . It is an adaptation of the 1981 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg . The film was written by Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain and stars Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, Bebe Neuwirth, and David Alan Grier . </P> <P> The story centers on 12 - year - old Alan Parrish, who becomes trapped in a board game while playing with his best friend Sarah Whittle in 1969 . Twenty - six years later, in 1995, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game, begin playing and then unwittingly release the now - adult Alan . After tracking down Sarah, the quartet resolve to finish the game in order to reverse all of the destruction it has caused . </P>

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