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Mao's Last Dancer
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Within Vinony's link graph, Mao's Last Dancer is referenced by 197 other articles, and connects out to IMDb, Li Cunxin and Beijing.
It is catalogued under topics including 2000s biographical films, 2000s dance films and 2009 English-language films.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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6.6At 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.
Cast
- Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
- Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult
- Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin Huang as Li Cunxin - boy
- Joan Chen as Niang
- Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson
Themes
- dance
- dancer
- village
- ballet dancer
- rags to riches
- based on true story
- promise
- ballet
- communism
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
8,477 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
55%
Metacritic
55/100
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Music
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 7 wins & 20 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Producer
- Jane Scott
- Production company
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Narrative location
- Texas
- Duration
- 121
- FilmAffinity ID
- 898471
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.maoslastdancermovie.com
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- publication date
- 2009-01-01
- title
- Mao's Last Dancer
- film editor
- Mark Warner
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 55/100
- box office
- 15440315
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