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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

PG ★ 6.5/10 117 min Drama, Romance Australia, China English
Screenplay by: Jan Sardi
Author: Cunxin Li
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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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Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Chi Cao Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Joan Chen Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson US Federal Judge

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