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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Set twenty-one years after Jumanji, it follows four teenagers who are transported into the video game world of Jumanji and play as their chosen characters. Joining another player, they must beat the game to return home.
Movie Info
Directed by: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale
Produced by: Matt Tolmach, William Teitler
Screenplay by: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner
Story by: Chris McKenna
Based on: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Music by: Henry Jackman
Cinematography: Gyula Pados
Edited by: Mark Helfrich, Steve Edwards
Production company: Columbia Pictures, Matt Tolmach Productions, Seven Bucks Productions, Radar Pictures
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date: December 5, 2017 (Grand Rex), December 20, 2017 (United States)
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Cast
Photo Credits. Dwayne Johnson: Eva Rinaldi/Flickr/Wikimedia. Jack Black: Stefan Brending/Wikimedia. Kevin Hart: Eva Rinaldi/Flickr/Wikimedia. Karen Gillan: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Wikimedia. Nick Jonas: Georges Biard/Wikimedia. Bobby Cannavale: Drama League/Flickr/Wikimedia. Rhys Darby: Wei Shi Photography/archive.org. Alex Wolff: A-List Communications/Vimeo/Nordstrom Supper Suite/archive.org. Colin Hanks: Nan Palmero/Flickr/Wikimedia. Marc Evan Jackson: Genevieve/Flickr/Wikimedia. Tim Matheson: NBC Television/ebay/argenta.anydns.com/Wikimedia. Missi Pyle: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia. Marin Hinkle: Angela George/Wikimedia.
Characters
The Game World
Dr. Smolder Bravestone: Spencer's avatar – a strong, confident archaeologist, explorer, and the leader of the team who has no weaknesses.
Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon: Bethany's avatar – a cartographer, cryptographer, archaeologist, and paleontologist, whose weakness is a lack of endurance.
Franklin "Mouse" Finbar: Fridge's avatar – a diminutive zoologist and weapons carrier, who has a weakness to cake.
Ruby Roundhouse: Martha's avatar – a commando with talents in martial arts dancing, but has a weakness to venom.
Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough, Alex Vreeke's avatar, a young aircraft pilot who has a weakness to mosquitoes.
Professor Russell Van Pelt: An archaeologist, Bravestone's former partner, and the video game's villain. Van Pelt tries to retrieve the Jaguar's Eye, whose power possesses him. Jonathan Hyde previously portrayed a different iteration of the character in the original film, who was a hunter.
Nigel Billingsley, the players' main in-game guide.
The Real World
Spencer Gilpin: An unpopular, nerdy student at Brantford High School.
Bethany Walker: A popular, pretty, self-centered, teenage girl at Brantford High School.
Anthony "Fridge" Johnson: A Brantford High School football jock coasting through his education with his athletic prowess, who cares more about dating than studying.
Martha Kaply: A quiet, shy, and cynical intellectual at Brantford High School.
Alex Vreeke: A teenage gamer who was trapped inside the Jumanji video game, in 1996. / An adult in the modern-day scenes of the film.
Principal Bentley, the principal of Brantford High School who makes Spencer, Bethany, Fridge, and Martha clean up the basement as part of their detention.
Miss Mathers, Spencer and Fridge's history teacher.
Mr. Vreeke, Alex's father who loses his son in 1996 to Jumanji.
Bethany's high school English teacher.
Coach Webb, the high school gym teacher.
Lucinda, Bethany's friend.
Mrs. Gilpin, Spencer's mother.
Mrs. Johnson, Fridge's mother.
Mrs. Walker, Bethany's mother.
Fussfeld, a friend of Spencer's at Brantford High School, who is infatuated with Bethany.
Credit: Wikipedia
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