Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)1h57
Drama · Romance
Director Bruce Beresford (6.8 avg)
Also directed Driving Miss Daisy, Double Jeopardy, The Contract, and 36 more
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
Bruce Greenwood
Kyle MacLachlan
Joan Chen
Chi Cao
Amanda Schull
Wang Shuangbao
Aden Young
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