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Mao's Last Dancer

2010·1h 57m·PG
DramaBiographyRomanceMusic
IMDb Rating
★ 7.3/10
8,554 votes
Metascore
55
Metacritic

In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.

Mao's Last Dancer is a 2010 drama biography movie directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.3/10 from 8,554 votes and runs 1h 57m.

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Director
Bruce Beresford
Stars
Kyle MacLachlan
Bruce Greenwood
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Chi Cao
Details
2010-10-01
117 min
Movie
PG
★ Australia
★ English, Mandarin
Keywords
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