Soul Man
Movie
Type
1986
Year
1h 44m
Runtime
★ 5.4
Rating
Comedy
Genre
A caucasian 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.
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Cast
C. Thomas Howell
Mark Watson
Rae Dawn Chong
Sarah Walker
Arye Gross
Gordon Bloomfeld
James Earl Jones
Professor Banks
Melora Hardin
Whitney Dunbar
Leslie Nielsen
Mr. Dunbar
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lisa Stimson
David Reynolds
Ernie (as Dave Reynolds)