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• Drama
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• 2023
• Ben Affleck
• 111 mins
• 12

Summary

In 1984, Nike's basketball talent scout Sonny Vaccaro believes the company should invest its entire annual 250,000 US dollar budget in one prospect: 21-year-old NBA rookie Michael Jordan. Vaccaro travels to North Carolina to speak directly to Michael's parents Deloris and James. Drama starring Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Ben Affleck

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

James Mottram

Ben Affleck directs and co-stars in this infectious 1980s-set tale of how underperforming sports clothing brand Nike turned its fortunes around by luring basketball star Michael Jordan to endorse its trainers. Affleck plays Phil Knight, Nike's Porsche-driving CEO, but the film belongs to Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, the basketball guru who spots Jordan's potential and sets out to reel him in with the creation of the Air Jordan trainer. Rounding out a sublime cast are Viola Davis and her real-life husband Julius Tennon as Jordan's parents, plus Jason Bateman and Chris Tucker as Vaccaro's fellow Nike bigwigs, and a scene-stealing Chris Messina as Jordan's permanently angry agent. The soundtrack of wall-to-wall hits (Dire Straits, Run-DMC, ZZ Top) lays on the period nostalgia thickly. Underneath that, though, Air is an absorbing film about money, power, race and class, revealing how Jordan's relationship with Nike changed the face of corporate sponsorship for ever.

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7.4/10

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Cast

rolenameSonny VaccaroMatt DamonRob StrasserJason BatemanPhil KnightBen AffleckDavid FalkChris MessinaDeloris JordanViola DavisJames JordanJulius TennonHoward WhiteChris TuckerPeter MooreMatthew MaherHorst DasslerGustaf SkarsgårdGeorge RavelingMarlon WayansKatrina SainzJessica GreenMichael JordanDamian Delano Young

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rolenameDirectorBen Affleck

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2023-04-05

Languages

English | German | French

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swearing

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