Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

Movie |

Dancer | Dance

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  • Genre(s): Drama, Romance
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Bruce Beresford
  • Cast(s): Chi Cao, Joan Chen, Amanda Schull, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 57min
  • Music: Christopher Gordon
  • Award(s): Faith and Freedom 2011 (Won)
    IF 2010 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Song Sung Blue, My Oxford Year
  • Story:
    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.
    Full Story
7.3/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

7.3/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Screen Music Award

Best Feature Film Score | 2010 | Christopher

Best Soundtrack Album | 2010 | Christopher

ASSG Award

Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Recording | 2009 | David

Audience Award

Best Foreign Feature Film | 2009 | Bruce

AFI Award

Best Original Music Score | 2009 | Christopher

Nominations
IF Award

Best Actress | 2010 | Joan

Best Direction | 2010 | Bruce

Best Script | 2010 | Jan

Best Actor | 2010 | Chi

Best Feature Film | 2010

FCCA Award

Best Film | 2010 | Jane

Best Director | 2010 | Bruce

Best Editing | 2010 | Mark

Best Music Score | 2010 | Christopher

AFI Award

Best Editing | 2009 | Mark

Best Screenplay Adapted | 2009 | Jan

Best Production Design | 2009 | Herbert

Best Direction | 2009 | Bruce

Best Film | 2009 | Jane

Peoples Choice Award

2009 | Bruce

IFMCA Award

Best Original Score for a Drama Film | 2009 | Christopher

BOX OFFICE

Budget 25,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 23,900,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Chi Cao's parents were two of Cunxin Li's former teachers at the Beijing Dance Academy. Li wanted Cao to portray him.

Joan Chen and Cunxin Li share similar experiences in life: both were born in 1961, they were picked at a young age to pursue an artistic career and they both came to the United States in 1981.

Schull, Amanda who plays Li's wife Elizabeth--the American dancer who leaves him to audition for the San Francisco Ballet--was herself a member of the SF corps de ballet until she retired in 2006.

Joan Chen is friends with Charles Foster's wife, actress Ye Chen. They worked together in the Shanghai Film Studio. Charles Foster is portrayed in the film by Kyle MacLachlan, who previously worked with Joan Chen in Twin Peaks (1990).

Popular Dialogues

"Li - as an adult: Ben not understand. He's too much in love with China"

"Li - as an adult: Big... big house, Ben. Um... you have a big family?"