"Before you can fly, you have to be free."
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.
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) is a drama and romance movie produced by Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd. in Australia. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Jan Sardi. On screen you will see Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao and Amanda Schull. With a runtime of 1h 57m, the film averages 6.6/10 across 125 TMDB ratings. It was made on a budget of $25,000,000 and went on to gross $23,914,731 worldwide.
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