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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Movie - 117mins

DramaRomance

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.

Rating: 6.57

Cast:

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Barbara

Bush

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George

H.

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Mao

Zedong

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Bruce

Greenwood

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Kip

Gamblin

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Chi

Cao

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Chengwu

Guo

name

Wen

Bin

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Joan

Chen

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Bruce

Greenwood

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Amanda

Schull

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Kyle

MacLachlan

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Jack

Thompson

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Camilla

Vergotis

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Madeleine

Eastoe

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Steven

Heathcote

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Aden

Young

name

Wang

Shuangbao

name

Barbara

Bush

name

George

H.

name

Mao

Zedong

name

Bruce

Greenwood

name

Kip

Gamblin

name

Chi

Cao

name

Chengwu

Guo

name

Wen

Bin

name

Joan

Chen

name

Bruce

Greenwood