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Maybe she didn’t want to go to school in Hawaii. Maybe she made that decision before her parents died. We don’t know. But we do know she has a scholarship to UCSD and it’s once of the best marine biology schools in the country.
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Excessive healthcare costs have real and lasting impacts on people’s lives. So happy for you that you clearly haven’t lived this yet.
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Family doesn’t require DNA. I was in a theater full of kids and they all left happy and energized so I don’t think they got as caught up with where her bedroom was located as they did with her health insurance status. All they knew is she had a bigger but still very happy family.
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In the first one Lilo was by herself slot because Nani was constantly working jobs that made her miserable. Lilo took herself to Dane alone, was home alone, swam in the ocean alone. Is any of this acceptable? If they were my daughters I wouldn’t want that for either of them.
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Oh cool, you got to review the custody agreement with your family law attorney? I missed that part of the movie. Was it a post credits scene or something?
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So it means they can’t step foot off the island? I’m assuming the neighbor is also a native Hawaiian, and Nani keeps the house so seems to be clearly planing to come home. Give her a break, she’s a child too! And she maintains the relationship.
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I guess Disney didn’t think a kids movie that gets into the various welfare options would be fun to watch. Also if they made that movie people would be mad at her for being on welfare.
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Actually social workers like to bring a final resolution to a child within a year. An indefinite stage of uncertainty is what isn’t good for a child. And Nani clearly isn’t ready to parent which is finally apparent when she can’t pay Lilo’s hospital bill and loses custody.
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Didn’t give her up, she lost custody because she hadn’t gotten health insurance and couldn’t pay Lilo’s hospital bill. Maybe see the movie before making judgements so you can make objective arguments based on the facts of the movie.
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Maybe that Nani is a child too and not ready to parent. She couldn’t manage to get health insurance and couldn’t pay Lilo’s hospital bill. But family is more than DNA and having support from long time friends can make all the difference in these sister’s lives.
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You don’t think losing custody because Nani isn’t capable of being a parent was the next step even in the animated version? And lack of affordable healthcare is even more of an issue now then when the first movie came out.
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Are you serious, they’ve all been different? That’s why every single remake comes with its own new contreversy.
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It’s not the worst.
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See the movie and form your own opinion. It’s impossible to summarize an entire movie in a single post.
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They still very much see the struggle. And I think losing custody of a child because of lack of affordable healthcare is also pretty relatable.
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That’s really too bad that you aren’t taking her. I’d hope most kids would see that this is a much healthier ending. It’s balanced because Nani is still very much in Lilo’s life, but has the support to follow her own dreams too. And lilo is with a close neighbor who is better prepared to parent.
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Also maybe that lack of affordable healthcare is a huge force in people’s lives. Because despite her efforts, Nani lost custody because she never got health insurance and couldn’t pay Lilo’s hospital bill.
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Maybe that family is more than DNA. Lilo gets the friend she needs in stitch, an alien, and the parental figure she needs from a close neighbor who is capable of parenting. All while staying closely connected to her biological sister who visits frequently and will return home. It takes a village.
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Well school didn’t break up the family, Nani lost custody because she failed to get health insurance and then couldn’t pay Lilo’s hospital bill.
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You really want to compare $ resources between California and Hawaii?
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She got a full scholarship to UCSD and it’s one of the best schools for marine biology in the world. Will set her up really nicely for a successful career in a field she loves. Also, she can come back whenever she want due to alien technology.
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More like she loses custody because she didn’t get health insurance and can’t pay a hospital bill. Imagine that, lack of affordable healthcare impacts people’s lives! Too bad Nani can’t get a better paying job to provide. Oh right, that’s what she is doing by using her time to gain skills.
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She lost her sister because she couldn’t provide for her. She didn’t get health insurance and couldn’t pay a hospital bill but stays very much involved in her sister’s life. Lack of affordable healthcare has real impacts on people’s lives.
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Why put a spoiler warning on this? It’s absolutely not what happens
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So she spends her life working excessive hours in a job she hates to avoid a short time apart. Also, it wasn’t her choice to place Lilo. That decision was made by the social worker when Nani wasn’t capable of paying the hospital bill. Lack of affordable healthcare impacts another family.
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Odd, most people determine success/failure of a movie based on box office. I guess #1 isn’t good?
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Well I was in a packed theater and everyone left happy and laughing. So maybe you got bad intel.
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Except she didn’t get healthcare. The social worker made a point of saying you must get health insurance and she didn’t or couldn’t.
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Didn’t dump her family. Her sister was taken because she couldn’t pay a hospital bill after a long list of other failures. Nani wasn’t capable of parenting at this stage.
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Problem with this theory is that Lilo still isn’t in a “tradition family.” She’s living with a single, older woman. So what theory not supported by the facts of the movie do you have now?
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Nani didn’t have a choice. When she couldn’t cover the bills for the hospital she lost the kid. Luckily a close community member stepped up and the sisters remain close.
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Right, Nani is a one demential character in the animation. And maybe letting a close family friend for a short time is more healthy for both of them. Or do we think Lilo running around alone in town, swimming in the ocean, and at home alone at 6 is better?
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Save it for summer camps!
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We had tickets to a game in Colorado on Mother’s Day and it was snowed out! So could be first of many snowy games.
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We liked it too! We were pleasantly surprised that it was way better than we thought it would be.
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They could see it, just not in person