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Mao's Last Dancer

Before You Can Fly You Have To Be Free.

This multi-award-winning arthouse release is based on a true 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. In English and Mandarin with English subtitles.

114 minutes, Mature Accompaniment under 10
Biographical, Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cai, Amanda Schull, Shuangbao Wang
Director	Bruce Beresford
Screenplay	Jane Sardi, from the autobiography by Cunxin Li
Music	Christopher Gordon
Cinematography	Peter James
Editing	Mark Warner
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2009
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama, biography
Language	Mild to moderate, very frequent and in context. Low impact.
Nudity	None
Sex	None, mild references to sex, infrequent, no/low impact.
Violence	Mild, infrequent, no blood or graphic scenes.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Internet (IMDB)926 Netizens	15

Average .. 75%	15

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