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01/10/2009 Drama, Romance 1h 57m
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Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Overview

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.

  1. Bruce Beresford

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  2. Kyle MacLachlan

    Charles Foster

  3. Joan Chen

    Niang

  4. Chi Cao

    Li Cunxin - adult

  5. Amanda Schull

    Elizabeth Mackey

  6. Wang Shuangbao

    Dia

  7. Aden Young

    Dilworth

  8. Jack Thompson

    Judge Woodrow Seals

  9. Penne Hackforth-Jones

    Cynthia Dodds

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Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$25,000,000.00

Revenue
$23,914,731.00

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