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2009

MAO’S LAST DANCER

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

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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 fell 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.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Runtime: 117 minutes
Budget: $25 million
Box Office: $23.90 million
Vote Average: 66

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