Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

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.

Release Date: 2009-10-01

Genre: Drama, Romance

Duration: 117 minutes

Rating: ⭐ 6.568/10 (125 votes)

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Aden Young, Jack Thompson