The Air Up There
1994
Jimmy Dolan went to recruit a new player. What he found was a whole new ballgame.
- Paul Michael Glaser
- 1h 47m
- January 7, 1994 · United States of America
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 7, 1994
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment,Hollywood Pictures,Interscope Communications,Nomura Babcock & Brown,NBB Unit One Film Partners,Longview Entertainment
- Cast
- Kevin Bacon,Charles Gitonga Maina,Yolanda Vazquez,Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole,Sean McCann,Dennis Patrick,Ilo Mutombo,Nigel Miguel,Eric Menyuk,Keith Gibbsand 3 more
- Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Writer
- Max Apple
- Cinematography
- Dick Pope
- Music
- David Newman
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Revenue
- $21,011,500
- IMDb
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