The Air Up There(1994)

movie - first aired/released 1994-01-07 - 107 min - audience 6.2

Family, Comedy

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser

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.