Mao's Last Dancer
Summary: In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG
Production: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Domestic: $ 4,817,770
International: $ 19,096,961
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