Mao’s Last Dancer
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $23,900,000
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.
Director
Bruce Beresford
Writer
Jan Sardi
Cast
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Aden Young
Dilworth
