Mao’s Last Dancer
PG 2009-10-01 (US) • Drama, Romance • 117minutes • Play Trailer
Overview:
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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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

US Federal Judge

Camilla Vergotis

Mary McKendry

Madeleine Eastoe

Lori

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Status

Released

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$23,914,731

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