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Mao's Last Dancer
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6.6At 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.
Released: 2009-10-01117 minDir: Bruce BeresfordDrama, RomanceBudget: $25.0MBox office: $23.9M
Cast
- Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
- Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult
- Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin Huang as Li Cunxin - boy
- Joan Chen as Niang
- Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson
Themes
- dance
- dancer
- village
- ballet dancer
- rags to riches
- based on true story
- promise
- ballet
- communism
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
8,477 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
55%
Metacritic
55/100
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Music
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 7 wins & 20 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Producer
- Jane Scott
- Production company
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Narrative location
- Texas
- Duration
- 121
- FilmAffinity ID
- 898471
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.maoslastdancermovie.com
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- publication date
- 2009-01-01
- title
- Mao's Last Dancer
- film editor
- Mark Warner
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 55/100
- box office
- 15440315
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