The original "Lilo & Stitch" had a high-flying finale, centered on an air chase between alien spaceships. But in the live-action remake, director Dean Fleischer Camp ("Marcel the Shell With Shoes On") was keen to bring the story back down to Earth,

For the most part, the new version sticks pretty closely to the 2002 animated film. The story centers on two sisters, Lilo and Nani, who are navigating life after the death of their parents. Nani, a teenager just about to head to college, struggles to hold down a job and watch out for her sister, who is a bit chaotic.

But then the finale of Lilo & Stitch arrives with a jarring change many fans didn’t expect. Lilo isn’t with social services, but she is separated from Nani at the movie’s end. The teen heads to college in San Diego to study marine biology ...

Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong play onscreen sisters in "Lilo & Stitch" and opened up about how they became ohana off screen as well.