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.

• DirectorPaul Michael Glaser
• Release7 January 1994
• Genre
  Family / Comedy
• Duration1h 47m
• Budget$17,000,000
• Revenue$21,011,500
• Rate
  

  6.137
  157 reviews
• Productions

  NBB Unit One Film Partners, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications, Nomura Babcock & Brown, Longview Entertainment