Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Plot Summary
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.
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Full Cast & Characters
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Niang
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
Aden Young
Dilworth
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Director & Crew
Bruce Beresford
Director
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It has a TMDB rating of 6.6/10 based on 126 votes.
Who directed Mao’s Last Dancer?
Mao’s Last Dancer was directed by Bruce Beresford and released in 2009.
How long is Mao’s Last Dancer?
Mao’s Last Dancer has a runtime of 1 hours and 57 minutes.
Movie Details
- Release Date
- 2009-10-01
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box Office
- $23.9M
- Status
- Released