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The Air Up There (1994)
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
“Jimmy Dolan went to recruit a new player. What he found was a whole new ballgame.”
Family, Comedy · 1h 47m
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.
Cast
Kevin Bacon
Jimmy Dolan
C
Charles Gitonga Maina
Saleh
Yolanda Vazquez
Sister Susan
M
Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole
Nyaga
Sean McCann
Ray Fox
Dennis Patrick
Father O'Hara
I
Ilo Mutombo
Mifundo
N
Nigel Miguel
Halawi
Eric Menyuk
Mark Collins
K
Keith Gibbs
Buddy Wilson
M
Miriam Owiti
Beisa
John Matshikiza
Mingori Mining Company Clerk
Crew
- Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Writer
- Max Apple
- Director of Photography
- Dick Pope
- Original Music Composer
- David Newman
- Editor
- Tom McMurtry, Michael E. Polakow
- Producer
- Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Rosalie Swedlin
Details
- Release date
- 1994-01-07
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Family, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- NBB Unit One Film Partners, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications, Nomura Babcock & Brown, Longview Entertainment
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Box office
- $21,011,500