Soul Man

Oct 24, 1986

1h 44m

★ 5.3

He didn't give up, he got down.

Overview

A white prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

The Steve Tisch Company

Soul Man Trailers

Cast

Mark Watson

C. Thomas Howell

Sarah Walker

Rae Dawn Chong

Gordon Bloomfeld

Arye Gross

Professor Banks

James Earl Jones

Whitney Dunbar

Melora Hardin

Mr. Dunbar

Leslie Nielsen

Mrs. Dunbar

Ann Walker

Bill Watson

James B. Sikking

Dr. Aronson

Max Wright

Ray McGrady

Jeff Altman

Lisa Stimson

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Dorothy Watson

Maree Cheatham

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