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Oct 1, 2010 · Mao's Last Dancer: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby. In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Bruce Beresford
- 2010-10-01
Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin 's 2003 autobiographical memoir of the same name. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao, Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin. The film also stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen and Amanda Schull.
Bruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the ...
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- Bruce Beresford
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- Bruce Greenwood
Find out how to watch Mao's Last Dancer. Stream Mao's Last Dancer, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide.
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Jun 3, 2010 · 252. 36K views 13 years ago. From the Academy Award nominated director Bruce Beresford (DRIVING MISS DAISY, TENDER MERCIES), comes the inspiring true story of Li Cunxin and his extraordinary...
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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.
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Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer.
