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Chris Sanders
Writer 64 years old

Chris Sanders

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its live-action adaptation and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The... Read full bio →

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Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch

Dean Fleischer Camp 2025 1h 48m 4.5

The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

Once Upon a Studio

Once Upon a Studio

Dan Abraham, Trent Correy 2023 9m 8.0

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

The Croods: A New Age

The Croods: A New Age

Joel Crawford 2020 1h 35m 5.3

The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.

Penguins of Madagascar

Penguins of Madagascar

Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith 2014 1h 32m 5.6

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

The Croods

The Croods

Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco 2013 1h 39m 6.9

The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Don Hahn 2009 1h 26m 7.3

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over.

Leroy & Stitch

Leroy & Stitch

Bobs Gannaway, Tony Craig 2006 1h 13m 5.0

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.

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

Tony Leondis, Michael LaBash 2005 1h 8m 7.3

Now, we find the rowdy extraterrestrial getting used to life with his new ʻohana. However, a malfunction in the ultimate creation of Dr. Jumba soon emerges, which reinstates his destructive programming and threatens to both ruin his friendship with Lilo and to short him out for good!

The Lion King 1½

The Lion King 1½

Bradley Raymond 2004 1h 17m 7.5

Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog retell the story of The Lion King, from their own unique perspective.

Stitch! The Movie

Stitch! The Movie

Bobs Gannaway, Tony Craig 2003 1h 3m 5.0

The continuing adventures of Lilo, a little Hawaiian girl, and Stitch, the galaxy's most wanted extraterrestrial. Stitch, Pleakley, and Dr. Jumba are all part of the household now. But what Lilo and Stitch don't know is that Dr. Jumba brought one of his alien "experiments" to Hawaii.

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch

Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois 2002 1h 25m 7.5

A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually an notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law.

Tarzan

Tarzan

Kevin Lima, Chris Buck 1999 1h 28m 7.1

Tarzan is the animated film from Walt Disney Studios based on the 1912 novel Tarzan by Edgar Rice. The film was a success in theaters world wide. Tarzan 2 was later produced in 2005, as a "sequel"

Mulan

Mulan

Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook 1998 1h 28m 7.9

To save her father from death in the army, a Chinese maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroes in the process.

Love and Death

Love and Death

Woody Allen 1975 1h 25m 8.0

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

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