Year: 1994
Runtime: 107 mins
Language: English
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
College basketball coach Jimmy Dolan hopes a promotion will come from discovering a standout player. He travels to Africa after spotting a prodigious teen named Saleh in an old home movie. Saleh, the chief’s son, is torn between his tribe’s struggle to protect its land from a mining company and the lure of a rival company’s basketball team.
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