Young Judy & Peter Shepherd discover the board game Jumanji in their new house. But when they begin to play they release wild animals along with Alan Parrish (Robin Williams), a grown man who has been trapped inside the game since he was 12 years old. Together they must seek out Alan's friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) & re-enter the game to win. In doing so they have to face elephants, lions, & the big game hunter Van Pelt. ...

Young Judy & Peter Shepherd discover the board game Jumanji in their new house. But when they begin to play they release wild animals along with Alan Parrish (Robin Williams), a grown man who has been trapped inside the game since he was 12 years old. Together they must seek out Alan's friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) & re-enter the game to win. In doing so they have to face elephants, lions, & the big game hunter Van Pelt. ...

Three episodes from the animated children's TV series based on the 1995 film starring Robin Williams. In ' Masked Identity', Peter decides to stay in Jumanji after an encounter with the school bully & his gang, & gets transformed into a Manji masked warrior. ' Master Builder' sees Peter's computer game, which he was planning to use to rescue Alan, fall into the hands of a mad inventor who uses it to gain control over the inner workings of Jumanji. In ' No Dice', Alan steals the dice to keep the children out of Jumanji, but Peter figures out another way to get into the game. ...

Contemporary / British English Be careful when you throw the Jumanji dice! What will happen? Nobody knows, but it will be dangerous. Two children find the game & start to play. Jungle animals & a man with a gun come out of the board. How can they stop them? They must finish the game. ...

Trio of films featuring Robin Williams. In ' Jumanji' (1995), young Judy & Peter Shepherd discover the board game Jumanji in their new house. But when they begin to play they release wild animals along with Alan Parrish (Williams), a grown man who has been trapped inside the game since he was 12 years old. Together they must seek out Alan's friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) & re-enter the game to win. In doing so they have to face elephants, lions, & the big game hunter Van Pelt. In ' Hook' (1991), based on the Peter Pan story, busy American lawyer Peter Banning (Williams) takes his family to London for a holiday with Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith). But the visit takes an unexpected turn when Peter's kids are abducted by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), forcing the lawyer to confront his past & accept that he is the grown-up Peter Pan. With the help of the tomboy fairy Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), he then returns to Never-Never Land ready to confront his old crocodile-hating enemy & win back his family. ' Zathura
- A Space Adventure' (2005) stars Jonah Bobo & Josh Hutcherson as two brothers, Danny & Walter. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage to cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister & their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realise what they mean to each other.
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A biography of the greatest elephant ever known. Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, 'rescued' & taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo. Drawing on modern knowledge of elephant behaviour & biology, it also looks at Jumbo from a zoologist's point of view. Why was he thought to be a runt? ...