Mao's Last Dancer

August 22nd, 2010

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Mao's Last Dancer

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2009
Country: Australia
Runtime:
Languages: English, Mandarin
Director: Bruce Beresford
Taglines:
  • Before You Can Fly You Have To Be Free.

    • Writing by: Jan Sardi - (screenplay)
    Cunxin Li - (based on the autobiography by)

    Produced by: Ling Geng - co-producer
    Troy Lum - executive producer
    Sue MacKay - line producer
    Jane Scott - producer

    Cast: Bruce Greenwood - Ben Stevenson
    Kyle MacLachlan - Charles Foster
    Joan Chen - Niang
    Chi Cao - Li Cunxin - as an adult
    Amanda Schull - Elizabeth Mackey
    Shuangbao Wang - Dia (as Shuang Bao Wang)
    Chengwu Guo - Li Cunxin - as a teenager
    Wen Bin Huang - Li Cunxin - as a child
    Aden Young - Dilworth
    Madeleine Eastoe - Lori
    Camilla Vergotis - Mary McKendry

    Music: Christopher Gordon
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    Plot Outline:
    A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese...
    Plot: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.

    Movie Quotes:
    Louie La La: You got two minutes to get my money. After that, somebody's getting his knees broke.

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