Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

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 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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Cast

	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

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Tagline:	Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Certification:	PG

Details

Genres: Drama, Romance

Language: English, 普通话

Release Date: 01 October 2009

Country: AU, CN

Runtime: 117m

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Company: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Budget: $25,000,000

Revenue: $23,900,000

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Cast

	Chi Cao	Li Cunxin - adult
	Chengwu Guo	Li Cunxin - teenage
	Wen Bin Huang	Li Cunxin - boy
	Joan Chen	Niang
	Bruce Greenwood	Ben Stevenson
	Amanda Schull	Elizabeth Mackey
	Kyle MacLachlan	Charles Foster
	Jack Thompson	US Federal Judge
	Camilla Vergotis	Mary McKendry
	Madeleine Eastoe	Lori
	Steven Heathcote	Bobby Cordner
	Aden Young	Dilworth
	Wang Shuangbao
	Barbara Bush	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	George H. W. Bush	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Mao Zedong	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Bruce Greenwood
	Kip Gamblin	David