Mao’s Last Dancer

2010 "Before you can fly, you have to be free."
7.3| 1h57m| PG| en| Drama, Romance
Storyline

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.

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Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

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  • Mao’s Last Dancer Cast
Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult
Joan Chen as Niang
Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster
Jack Thompson as US Federal Judge
Aden Young as Dilworth
Barbara Bush as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)