Movie
The Air Up There
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
- Release date
- 1994-01-07
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Family, Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- NBB Unit One Film Partners, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications, Nomura Babcock & Brown, Longview Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kevin Bacon as Jimmy Dolan
- Charles Gitonga Maina as Saleh
- Yolanda Vazquez as Sister Susan
- Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole as Nyaga
- Sean McCann as Ray Fox
- Dennis Patrick as Father O'Hara
- Ilo Mutombo as Mifundo
- Nigel Miguel as Halawi
- Eric Menyuk as Mark Collins
- Keith Gibbs as Buddy Wilson
- Miriam Owiti as Beisa
- John Matshikiza as Mingori Mining Company Clerk
Crew
- Paul Michael Glaser - Director
- Max Apple - Writer
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