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Leroy & Stitch (2006)

★ 6.5 · 603 ratings on TMDB

Here comes trouble!

Leroy & Stitch poster★ 6.5

Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo, but Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong – and it's finally time to say "aloha".

DirectorBobs Gannaway, Tony Craig
CastChris Sanders, Daveigh Chase, David Ogden Stiers, Jeff Bennett, Kevin McDonald, Kevin Michael Richardson
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Leroy & Stitch, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “intergalactic bureaucracy”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, belonging, authority, power, family.

↷ aliensUSidentitybelongingauthoritypowerfamily
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about familyFilms about identityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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