The Air Up There

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

A college basketball coach named Jimmy Dolan (Kevin Bacon) needs a dramatic find to land the promotion he wants, and all he has is a home movie of a towering teenager in Africa. He goes looking for Saleh (Charles Gitonga Maina), only to learn that the boy is the chief's son, with duties to his tribe and a mining company circling its land. Paul Michael Glaser puts Jimmy in the village, a stranger with a sports bag among the huts.