Mao’s Last Dancer

About Mao’s Last Dancer

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.

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) is a romance film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film is filed under village, dance, ballet, and dancer.

Bruce Greenwood appears as Ben Stevenson, Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster, Joan Chen as Niang, and Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult. It runs 117 minutes and was released in October 2009.

The screenplay is by Jan Sardi. It is adapted from real events. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

The American, Black Swan, and The Red Shoes make useful companions to Mao’s Last Dancer, all filed under ballet dancer. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 125 votes and it carries a PG rating.