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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Oct 1, 2009 · 1h 57m

6.6/10 TMDB user score
126 votes on TMDB

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

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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Top cast

  • Bruce Greenwood Bruce Greenwood Ben Stevenson
  • Kyle MacLachlan Kyle MacLachlan Charles Foster
  • Joan Chen Joan Chen Niang
  • Chi Cao Chi Cao Li Cunxin - adult
  • Amanda Schull Amanda Schull Elizabeth Mackey
  • Wang Shuangbao Wang Shuangbao Dia
  • Aden Young Aden Young Dilworth
  • Jack Thompson Jack Thompson Judge Woodrow Seals
  • Penne Hackforth-Jones Penne Hackforth-Jones Cynthia Dodds
  • Chengwu Guo Li Cunxin - teenage
  • Wen Bin Huang Li Cunxin - boy
  • Madeleine Eastoe Lori
  • Camilla Vergotis Mary McKendry
  • Steven Heathcote Steven Heathcote Bobby Cordner
  • Kip Gamblin Kip Gamblin David
  • Christopher Kirby Christopher Kirby Mason

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