Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303109923 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6303109926 Label: Hollywood Pictures Home Video Manufacturer: Hollywood Pictures Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Pictures Home Video Release Date: April 15, 1997 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: Hollywood Pictures Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 07, 1994 Sales Rank: 1541
Amazon.com: Kevin Bacon stars in this quickie sports film that's really more a culture-clash comedy. He plays an assistant coach at the college-basketball level who's looking for that big, big recruiting score and finds it in a distant African village. But his quarry, a seven-footer (Charles Gitona Maina) he spots in an anthropology film, turns out to be the prince of his tribe who's in line for the crown and has no interest in becoming fodder for Sports Center. So it's up to the callous American to convince him that he wants to give this all up to live in a dorm and chase coeds (while, of course, honoring his ancestors). Unfortunately, the jokes are stale and the basketball footage is nothing to get excited about. --Marshall Fine
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Except for the presence of Kevin Bacon, whom I like a lot, this would have been a real loser. There were so many things wrong. Directed by Paul Glaser with no surprises, no depth of character, a too ... Read More
Rating: - Fun at Full TILT!
Grab your garden hose and a top hat because The air up there is finally on DVD! This action adventure has more twists and turns than a funnal cake factory and more laughs than than all the Ernest movies ... Read More
Rating: - AMAZING ! ! ! ! !
This has got to be one of the best movies I have watched in a long time! At some point in time, you have to get tired of all the synthetic and predictable stuff that hollywood spews and this movie is the ... Read More
Rating: - The Best Movie!
I First saw the movie with my cousin & Mother in a hotel it was the best movie then i saw it again today 1/14/04 on TNT right now i want to buy it for DVD. it is the best movie i ever saw i give it 5 stars:) ... Read More
Rating: - Airs on Air
How did they do that? The most heart warming story about basketball ever. Did the actor really score or was it a basketball player that did a great job of acting? I guess we'll never know. Worth the price for the ... Read More
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