
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
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Synopsis
“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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Mao’s Last Dancer was released in 2009.
Mao’s Last Dancer has a runtime of 1h 57m.
Mao’s Last Dancer is classified as Drama, Romance.
Mao’s Last Dancer is rated PG.