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Mao's Last Dancer
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A moving, heartwarming, heartbreaking, inspirational, factually based, 2009 film in which promising 11-year-old Chinese student Li Cunxin (Wen Bin Huang and Chengwu Guo) leaves his hardworking mother (Joan Chen) and father at home in 1971 to study dance at Madam Mao's Beijing Dance Academy in Beijing, then travels to Texas in the 1980s to train as a ballet dancer (Chi Cao) under the tutelage of Houston Ballet Company artistic director Ben Robertson (Bruce Greenwood), and later finds himself defecting to the United States with the support of a lawyer (Kyle MacLachlan) and marrying fellow dancer Elizabeth Mackey (Amanda Schull).

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Year:
2011
Rating:
 PG
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