The Air Up There

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$21.0M

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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Genres

Comedy, Family, Sport

Director

Paul Michael Glaser

Cast

Kevin Bacon, Charles Gitonga Maina, Yolanda Vazquez

Released

7 January 1994

Runtime

1h 47m

Certificate

PG

IMDb rating

5.6 / 10

Votes

9,704

Rotten Tomatoes

22%

Box office

$21,011,318

Budget

$17,000,000

Edition

Base