The Air Up There
Film1994107 min6.2/10 on TMDB
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Jimmy Dolan went to recruit a new player. What he found was a whole new ballgame.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Kevin BaconJimmy Dolan
Yolanda VazquezSister Susan
Sean McCannRay Fox
Dennis PatrickFather O'HaraIlo Mutombo
Ilo MutomboMifundoNigel Miguel
Nigel MiguelHalawi
Eric MenyukMark CollinsKeith Gibbs
Keith GibbsBuddy Wilson
John MatshikizaMingori Mining Company ClerkExplore the crew
- Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Writer
- Max Apple
- Original Music Composer
- David Newman
- Director of Photography
- Dick Pope
- Producer
- Robert W. Cort
- Producer
- Ted Field
- Producer
- Rosalie Swedlin
- Editor
- Tom McMurtry
- Editor
- Michael E. Polakow