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Synopsis: 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. 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.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Director(s): Bruce Beresford
Actors: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
  6 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
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PG
Year:
2009
117 min
$4,806,750
Website
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OK.

Thanks.

Hey.

- Good luck.

- Thank you.

Ladies and

gentlemen, five minute call.

Just along here,

if you'll follow me.

I think that's his family.

Oh, isn't that wonderful?

Ni hao.

I'm Ben Stevenson.

I'm so glad you're here.

Ni hao.

Please, come to your seats.

What's that for?

Don't know.

Here you are.

Oh, xie xie!

(ORCHESTRA PLAYS

'THE RITE OF SPRING'

BY IGOR STRAVINSKY)

Bravo! Bravo!

- Fantastic!

- He was superb.

You've met my parents.

This is my oldest brother.

This is my fifth brother.

Cunxin!

Ni hao.

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Jan Sardi

Jan Sardi is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for Shine. He has also written and directed Love's Brother, and adapted The Notebook, based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. Sardi also adapted Li Cunxin's Mao's Last Dancer, which film was released in 2009. more…

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