October 1, 2009
117 minutes
DramaRomance
Mao’s Last Dancer
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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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)
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