Mao’s Last Dancer
en
PG-13
6.6
October 2009
Drama
Romance
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.
Runtime:
1 hour 57 minutes
Status:
Released
Original Language:
en
Budget:
$25,000,000.00
Revenue:
$23,914,731.00
Director:
Bruce Beresford
