Mao's Last Dancer (movie)
- User score: 6.6
- Production country: Australia, China
- Producer: Bruce Beresford
- Production companies: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Revenue: $23,900,000
- Release date: 10/1/2009
- Run time: 117 min.
Movie description
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.
