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Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The film was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action".

Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to Spirited Away.

Lilo & Stitch is the sixth Disney animated feature to take place in the present day, following Oliver & Company. The movie was originally intended to take place in rural Kansas so that Stitch could interact with other characters while still being isolated from wreaking greater havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island of Kauai was an important choice in defining the plot more clearly. No other feature-length animated movie had ever taken place on any of the Hawaiian islands before. In Sanders' words:

"Animation has been set so much in ancient, medieval Europe—so many fairy tales find their roots there, that to place it in Hawaii was kind of a big leap. But that choice went to color the entire movie, and rewrite the story for us."

While the animation team visited Kauai to research the locale, their tour guide explained the meaning of ohana as it applies to extended families. This concept of ohana became an important part of the movie. DeBlois recalls:

"No matter where we went, our tour guide seemed to know somebody. He was really the one who explained to us the Hawaiian concept of ohana, a sense of family that extends far beyond your immediate relatives. That idea so influenced the story that it became the foundation theme, the thing that causes Stitch to evolve despite what he was created to do, which is destroy."

The island of Kauai had previously been featured in such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Jurassic Park trilogy. The Disney animators faced the daunting task of meshing the film's plot, which showed the impoverished and dysfunctional life that many Hawaiians and other Westerners lived during the recent economic downturn, with the island's serene beauty. To give a brighter image to the film, the studio used watercolors to paint the backgrounds.

Jason Scott Lee, who has Hawaiian ethnicity, co-wrote the dialogue for his character.

Elvis Presley and Lilo Facts

Lilo is portrayed as a very big Elvis Presley fan in the movie.
Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax, holding up her favorite musician Elvis Presley as a model example of behavior.
Elvis music is featured in the movie. In one scene Lilo turns Stitch into a make shift record player playing, "Hounddog".
In one scene, a pink jeep car can briefly be seen in the lower-left corner of the screen. This is a reference to the Elvis movie Blue Hawaii, in which he drove such a car.

Sequels

The film has had a total of three related movies come after it.

* Stitch! The Movie (2003)
* Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch (2005)
* Leroy & Stitch (2006)

Box Office for Lilo and Stitch

Domestic: $145,794,338 53.4%
+ Foreign: $127,349,813 46.6%
= Worldwide: $273,144,151