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Mao’s Last Dancer

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Calorie Rating: 164
Released: 2009-10-01
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Budget: 25000000
Revenue 23914731
Studios: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.,


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.

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Cast

Amanda Schull
Character: Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Character: Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Character: Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang
Character: Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Character: Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Character: Ben Stevenson

Kyle MacLachlan
Character: Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
Character: US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Character: Mary McKendry

Madeleine Eastoe
Character: Lori
Steven Heathcote
Character: Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
Character: Dilworth

Barbara Bush
Character: Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kip Gamblin
Character: David


Production and Crew

Troy Lum
Executive Producer
Sue MacKay
Line Producer

Elaine Kusmishko
Art Direction
Peter James
Director of Photography
Kerrie Brown
Set Decoration

Ziggy Golden
Makeup & Hair
Geng Ling
Co-Producer

Maree McDonald
Hairstylist
Xin Mu
Makeup Artist
Jan Sardi
Screenplay

Herbert Pinter
Production Design
Jane Scott
Producer

Anna Borghesi
Costume Design