Mao's Last Dancer 2010 Movie

IMDB Rating 7.3  (7K)
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. More details

Directors

Bruce Beresford

Cast

Chi CaoBruce GreenwoodPenne Hackforth-JonesChristopher Kirby

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