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Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2009-10-01
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull

PG 2009 1 h 57 min

Drama Romance

66%

Audience score126 votes on TMDB

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“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”

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.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Screenplay: Jan Sardi
Music: Christopher Gordon
Status: Released
Release date: 01/10/2009
Original language: English
Budget: US$ 25 M
Box office: US$ 24 M