Film

Lilo & Stitch 2002

Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

  • Animation, Family, Comedy, Science Fiction
  • 85 min
  • PG

There's one in every family.

As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and ʻohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.

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