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The Air Up There

Comedy 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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United StatesUnited States
Variety
Variety
"The action in this basketball-oriented yarn isn't exactly fantastic, but it is mildly entertaining"  NEU
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Empire "However average it is, it still passes an hour and a half." NEU
United StatesUnited States
ReelViews
ReelViews
"A lightweight, brainless family movie chronicling the triumph of the underdog." POS
United StatesUnited States
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"A feeble and simplistic attempt at an adventure comedy"  NEG
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