The Air Up There

1994 6.1 (156 votes) 1h 47m

Genres

Family Comedy

Production Companies

NBB Unit One Film Partners
Hollywood Pictures
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Interscope Communications
Nomura Babcock & Brown
Longview Entertainment

Jimmy Dolan went to recruit a new player. What he found was a whole new ballgame.

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.