ACTORS: Kevin Bacon, Charles Gitonga Maina
PLAYERS: None of note
DIRECTOR: Paul Michael Glaser (Detective David Starsky from “Starsky and
Hutch”)
TECHNICAL ADVISOR: Bob McAdoo
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Top 10 Best
Movies of All-Time - Jon Teitel
"9) Kevin Bacon is an assistant college coach who travels to Africa in
an attempt to recruit a player who he saw on film. In a last-ditch
effort to prove his worth to the recruit, Bacon suits up and plays for
the local tribal team. Bacon’s playing ability is below-average,
but he’s a versatile actor (to say the least) who lends some credibility
to a movie that has no other stars of note. As the globalization
of basketball continues to explode today, this was one of the first
movies to show how cultures all over the world have adopted a game that
first flourished here in the United States"
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