The Air Up There

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

1/7/19941h 47min6.2/10(167 TMDB votes)

FamilyComedy

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser

Plot

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.