Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
October 1, 2009
117 min
PG
✓ Released 6099 days ago
Drama
Romance
6.6
User Score
122 votes
About
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Bruce Beresford
Runtime: 117 min
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $23,914,731
Top Cast
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
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