Mao’s Last Dancer(2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

66

1h 57m

  • Drama,
  • Romance

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Amanda Schull

    Amanda Schull

    Elizabeth Mackey

  • Chi Cao

    Chi Cao

    Li Cunxin - adult

  • Joan Chen

    Joan Chen

    Niang

  • Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  • Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  • Kyle MacLachlan

    Kyle MacLachlan

    Charles Foster

  • Jack Thompson

    Jack Thompson

    US Federal Judge

  • Aden Young

    Aden Young

    Dilworth

  • Wang Shuangbao

    Wang Shuangbao

  • Barbara Bush

    Barbara Bush

    Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce Greenwood

  • Kip Gamblin

    Kip Gamblin

    David

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Status

Released (Oct 1, 2009)

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$23,914,731

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