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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.
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Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
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Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
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Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
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Movie Info
Release Date
October 1, 2009
Runtime
1h 57m
Rating
PG
Genres
Drama, Romance
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