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Bookmark this pageThe Air Up There (1994)
Director: Paul M Glaser
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From Time Out Film Guide
An American basketball coach talent-scouting among Kenyan tribesmen - you'd expect standard fish-out-of-water culture-clash stuff, in which the natives teach the coach as much as he teaches them, leading to a rousing we-play-as-brothers climax. Sure enough, that's exactly what you get. Give or take the odd spot of predictable arrogance, however, it's a good-humoured, good-hearted film. Bacon is the quintessential smirking and swaggering thirty-something at whom the elders initially poke fun, but to whom they eventually owe a debt of gratitude. Only in Hollywood could a single game of basketball solve a violent territorial dispute.Author: AO
Cast & crew
Director: Paul M Glaser
Producer: Robert W Cort, Rosalie Swedlin, Ted Field
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Charles Maina, Yolanda Vazquez, Winston Ntshona, Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole, Sean McCann, Dennis Patrick full cast
Duration: 108 mins
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