IMDb
5.6 /10
10k votes


Family · Comedy · 1994 · 1h 47min
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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Hollywood Pictures
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Interscope CommunicationsNomura Babcock & BrownLongview Entertainment



The Air Up There (1993) - TV Spot 3
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IMDb
5.6 /10
10k votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
6.2 /10
167 votes
Letterboxd
5.3 /10
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Weighted average
5.7/10