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Mao’s Last Dancer
directed by Bruce Beresford
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
20091h 57m★ 6.6
DramaRomance
Streaming
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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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cast
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
C
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
W
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
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Director
Bruce Beresford
Language
EN
Budget
$25M
Box Office
$24M
