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Plot: 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 an...( read more read more... )d 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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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 22, 2008
    I saw this movie 2x in theaters as a kid. I LOVED THIS MOVIE. I haven't seen it in years. For that reason its getting a sold 4 star rating.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 7, 2008
    I believe that this is perhaps one of my most favorite Kevin Bacon movies. I am glad that he finally got over himself by the end of this movie and realized that you can't always get your own way.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 24, 2008
    I loved it. It was funny, it was serious, and it was about the underdog. If there's one thing about me that will always remain the same it's that I always want the underdog to win. Seabiscuit? Yep. I loved that movie.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 6, 2007
    this was a really fun movie. there were cheesy parts that would never fly in movies now, but it was heart warming and entertaining. i like this flick.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 14, 2007
    I've seen this movie in 1995 or 1996 and I was little and I liked K Bacon and I so liked the movie's subject
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 4, 2007
    i think i saw this movie a long time ago..cant remember the whole thing but i remember clips..it was good
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 12, 2007
    Exciting and funny about an aggressive college-basketball coach tries to recruit a Kenyan tribesman in a predictable, Rocky-type comedy adventure about global sports imperialism.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 10, 2007
    The basketball player that Kevin Bacon recruits actually played basketball at Barton County. I met him and I had asked him how he was able to do that dive from the cliff. He said "oh man, that wasn't me. I couldn't do that". "they had a stunt double fill in for me." He was actually from New York. Funny.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 21, 2007
    Lo mas divertido de esta movie es cuando le da los lentes jajajaja esta super me gusta.. y cuando ganan el juego es muy raro ver a Kevin en una movie asi pero me gusto mucho su actuacion.....
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 19, 2006
    good old fashoined movie... classic almost... kevin bacon isn't amazing in the role by any stretch.. but its a fun basketball story... and i'm a sucker for a basketball flick... fun stuff
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 7, 2006
    Kevin Bacon is a b-ball recruiter trying to find that 7 foot star in the wilds of Africa in this not-so-funny comedy with bad hoops footage, I have seen better b-ball on Law and Order.

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  • Rated: (PG)
  • Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser
  • Genres: Comedy, Action & Adventure
  • Released: January 7, 1994
  • DVD Released: November 11, 2003

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