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Mao’s Last Dancer (2010)

Movie"Before you can fly, you have to be free."
Audience Score
66
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PG 1 hr 57 minAug 20th, 2010Drama, Romance
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 fell 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.
StarringChi CaoChengwu GuoWen Bin Huang
DirectorBruce Beresford

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:August 20th, 2010
On DVD & Blu-ray:March 29th, 2011 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$25,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$23,900,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Troy Lum
Production Companies:Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
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