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Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
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
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes55%
Metacritic55/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
125 audience votes
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