Jumanji (1995)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1995
Running Times: 100 mins     104 mins
Format: Technicolor
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Stereo     SDDS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Tristar/Interscope Communications/Teitler Film Prods
Executive Producers: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Larry J. Franco
Producer: Scott Kroopf, William Teitler
Production Manager: Brent O'Connor
Unit Production Manager: Marty Ewing
Filmgroup Production Co-Ordinator: Lisa Van Cott

SCRIPT
Script: Jonathan Hensleigh, Jim Strain, Greg Taylor
Screen Story: Greg Taylor, Jim Strain, Chris Van Allsburg
Novel: Chris Van Allsburg

DIRECTION
Director: Joe Johnston
Assistant Directors: Betsy Magruder, Sandra Mayo, Jonathan Schneider, Christine Derek

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Thomas Ackerman
Camera Operator: Sandy McCallum, Joseph Vitagliano
Additional Camera Operator: Bob Ennis, Atilla Szalay
New Hampshire Camera Operator: Joseph Vitigliano

EDITING
Editor: Robert Dalva

MUSIC
Music: James Horner
Orchestrator: Steve Bramson
Music Editor: Jim Henrikson
Songs: Cole Porter (Day and Night); Ian Anderson (Locomotive Breath); Sherwood Schwartz, George Wyle (The Ballad of Gilligan's Island); Gioacchino Rossini (Una Voce Poco Fa); Antonin Dvorak (Serenade in D, Op 44)
Songs Performed By: Cole Porter (Day and Night); Jethro Tull (Locomotive Breath); Agnes Baltsa, The Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Una Voce Poco Fa); The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (Serenade in D, Op 44)
Music Mixer: Shawn Murphy

SOUND
Sound Designer: Randy Thorn, Gary Rydstrom
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard Hyams
Dialogue Editor: Sara Bolder, Michael Silvers
ADR Supervisor: Hugh Waddell
Foley Editor: Sandina Bailo-Lape
Sound Mixer: Rob Young
Foley Mixer: Tony Eckert
ADR Mixer: Dean Drabin
Re-Recording Mixers: Shawn Murphy, Gary Summers, Randy Thorn
Sound Effects Editors: Frank Eulner, Teresa Eckton, Ethan Van Der Ryn
Foley: Dennie Thorpe, Tom Barwick
Special Vocal Effects: Frank Welker

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Sandy Cooper
Key Hair: Sherri Linder Gygli
Costume Designer: Martha Wynne Snetsinger
Wardrobe Supervisor: Tracey Boulton

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Designers / Animatronics: Tom Woodruff Jr, Alec Gillis
Special Make Up Effects: Charkes Porlier

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisors: Stephen L. Price, Ken Ralston

Industrial Light and Magic

Senior Staff: Jeff Mann, Thomas A. Williams, Patrica Blau Price, Jim Morris
Animation Supervisor: Kyle Balda
Digital Model Supervisor: Geoff Campbell
Computer Graphics Supervisor: Carl Fredericks, Jim Mitchell, Ellen Poon, Doug Smythe
Computer Graphics Sequence Supervisor: Habib Zargarpour
Computer Graphics Animators: Philip Edward Alexy, Eric Armstrong, Peter Daulton, Jenn Emberley, Daniel Jeannette, David Kelly-Andrews, Julija Learie, Dale McBeath, Marjolaine Tremblay, Steve Williams
Computer Graphics Artists: Joel Aron, Christophe Hery, David Horsley, Ed Kramer, Tim McLaughlin, Steve Molin, Barbara L. Nellis, Damian Steel, Robert Weaver
Visual Effects Co-Ordinators: Jill Brooks, Elizabeth Brown
Digital Compositors: Barbara Brennan, Peg Hunter
Sabre Compositing Artists: Caitlin Content, Mark Holmes
Visual Effects Art Directors: Doug Chiang, George Hull, Claudia Mullaly
Digital Modellers: Jim Doherty, Paul Hunt, Dan Taylor
Pre-Production Supervisor of Animation: James satoru Straus
Digital Timing Supervisor: Bruce Vecchitto
Visual Effects Editor: Bill Kimberlin, David Tanaka
Scanning Supervisor: Joshua Pines
Senior Scanning Operator: George Gambetta
Sabre Group Supervisor: Dan McNamara
Digital Texture Artists: Jean Bolte, Rebecca Heskes, Carolyn Rendu
Chief Digital Rotoscope Artist: Jack Mongovan
Chief 3D Camera Matchmover: Jack Edsel Haye
Matte Artists: Eric Chauvin, Bill Mather
Maquette Sculptor: Richard Miller
Chief Model Makers: Sean Casey, Brian Gernard, Michael Lynch, Lorne Paterson, Larry Tan
Optical Line-Up: James C. Lim
Digital Plate Restoration: Scott Bonnenfant

Amalgamated Dynamics Inc

Chief Co-Ordinators: Yuri Everson, Andy Schoneberg
Key Sculptors: James Kagel, Ryan K. Peterson
Key Painters: Tom Killeen, Robert Clark
Key Fabricators: Mark Tyler, Karen Keener, Karen Lafler, Joanne Bloomfield
Key Mechanical Designers: Russ Shinkle, Dave Penikas, George Benota, John Lundberg, Yancy Kalzada, Hiroshi Ikeuchi

Special Effects Co-Ordinators: Stan Parks, Rory Cutler
Titles / Opticals: Cinema Research Corporation

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: James Bissell
Art Directors: David Wilson, Glen Pearson
New Hampshire Art Director: James Teagarden
Set Designer: Pamela Klamer, Elizabeth Lapp
Graphic Artist: Paolo Venturi
Set Decorators: Tedd Kuchera, Cynthia T. Lewis
New Hampshire Set Decorators: Beth Kushnick
Sculptures: Kent Jones

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Lara Fox

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Nancy Larman
New Hampshire Location Manager: Dow Griffith
Location Production Co-Ordinator: Penny Runge

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Betty Thomas

CASTING
Casting: Nancy Foy
Canadian Casting: Lynne Carrow
New England Casting: Marshall Peck
Casting Associate: Suzy Sharp-Kane

CAST
Robin Williams (Alan Parrish)
Jonathan Hyde (Van Pelt / Sam Parrish)
Kirsten Dunst (Judy Shepherd)
Bradley Michael Pierce (Peter Shepherd)
Bonnie Hunt (Sarah)
Bebe Neuwirth (Aunt Nora)
David Alan Grier (Carl Bentley)
Patricia Clarkson (Carol Parrish)
Adam Hann-Byrd (young Alan)
Laura Bell Bundy (young Sarah)
James Handy (exterminator)
Gillian Barber (Mrs Thomas)
Brandon Obray (Benjamin)
Cyrus Thiedeke (Caleb)
Gary Joseph Thorup (Billy Jessup)
Leonard Zola (cop)
Lloyd Berry (bum)
Malcolm Stewart (Jim Shepherd)
Annabel Kershaw (Martha Shepherd)
Darryl Henriques (gun salesman)
Robin Driscoll, Peter Bryant (paramedics)
Sarah Gilson, Florica Vlad (girls)
June Lion (baker)
Brenda Lockmuller (pianist)
Frederick Richardson (barber)

After being trapped in the board game Jumanji for 26 years, Alan Parrish is freed but finds himself having to defend two children againstthe wild forces that the game unleashes. Before long, the small town of Brantford in New Jersey is overrun by stampeding elephants, chaotic monkeys and killer plants.

Mawkishness rests uneasily alongside Gremlins (1984) style mayhem in this disappointing effects fest. The rampaging animals look great but the script is lacklustre, the characters barely sketched at all and Robin Williams is at his most sentimental and annoying.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Tristar

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG (for menacing fantasy action and some mild language)

AWARDS

1995
Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films
Saturn Award - Best Actress (Bonnie Hunt)

1995
February
16: UK - theatrical release

SEE ALSO
Jumanji (1996 - 1997)

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

MAGAZINES

Film Review March 1996 pp.22, 40-43 (UK)
review

Interzone no.107 (May 1996) pp.37-38 (UK)
illustrated review (by Nick Lowe)

Sight and Sound vol.6 no.3 (March 1996) pp.44-45 (UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review (by Philip Strick)

board-games; animals; jungles; magic

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009