Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

The Air Up There (1994)

Jimmy Dolan went to recruit a new player. What he found was a whole new ballgame.

★ 6.2/10 January 7, 1994 107 min

ComedyFamily

Director: Paul Michael Glaser  ·  Writer: Max Apple

Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

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Director

Paul Michael Glaser

Cast

Kevin Bacon Jimmy Dolan Charles Gitonga Maina Saleh Yolanda Vazquez Sister Susan Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole Nyaga Sean McCann Ray Fox Dennis Patrick Father O'Hara Ilo Mutombo Mifundo Nigel Miguel Halawi Eric Menyuk Mark Collins Keith Gibbs Buddy Wilson Miriam Owiti Beisa John Matshikiza Mingori Mining Company Clerk