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Summary
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.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+13)
Critics 55Audiences 68GoodWatch 61
Tomatometer55%
Metascore55
Audience score76%
IMDb7.3
User score5.6
Box office
96%of its budget back
- Budget
- $25 M
- Worldwide
- $24 M
Worldwide it made back $24 M of the $25 M it cost.
Running time
1 h 57 min
A typical length for dramas, +8 min on the typical 109
typical 109117Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 7 countries, rent or buy in 6 more
Released
2009
October 1, 2009
17 years ago
Genres
DramaRomanceLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ChineseMade in
- Australia
China
Rated
- PGUnited States
Better for older viewers: it's rated PG in the United States, and the viewing guide lists it for adults.
and 19 more37 people
- 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- CGChengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
- WBWen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
- MEMadeleine EastoeLori
- CVCamilla VergotisMary McKendry
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
Kip GamblinDavid
Christopher KirbyMason
Suzie SteenBetty Lou- YLYang LiCunmao - 19 yrs
Ferdinand HoangConsul Zhang- XWXiguo WuDirector Wang
Jiao GangTeacher Gao
Yue XiuqingMadame Official
Alice ParkinsonAssistant Stage Manager
Deni HinesAnita Jones
Directing · 1
- Bruce Beresford Director
Writing · 2
Production · 4
- Troy Lum Executive Producer
- Jane Scott Producer
- Geng Ling Co-Producer
- Sue MacKay Line Producer
Camera · 1
- Peter James Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Mark Warner Editor
Sound · 1
- Christopher Gordon Original Music Composer
Art · 3
- Herbert Pinter Production Design
- Kerrie Brown Set Decoration
- Elaine Kusmishko Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 4
- Anna Borghesi Costume Design
- Xin Mu Makeup Artist
- Maree McDonald Hairstylist
- Ziggy Golden Makeup & Hair
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