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Synopsis
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. 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
| Source | Rating | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| IMDb | 7.3/10 | 42% |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 55% | 21% |
| Metacritic | 55/100 | 21% |
| TMDB | 6.6/10126 votes | 16% |
| Balasaur Score | 64 | 100% |
Key crew
- Bruce BeresfordDirector
- Jan SardiScreenplay
- Christopher GordonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
- Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
- Joan ChenNiang
- Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
- Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
- Wang ShuangbaoDia
- Aden YoungDilworth
- Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
- Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia Dodds
- Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
- Madeleine EastoeLori
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