Soul Man

1986

104 min

5.4

Ends at

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.

Budget

$4,500,000

Genre

Comedy

Director

Steve Miner

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

C. Thomas Howell

Rae Dawn Chong

Arye Gross

James Earl Jones

Melora Hardin

Leslie Nielsen

Ann Walker

James B. Sikking

Max Wright

Jeff Altman

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Soul Man

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.

  • C. Thomas Howell

  • Rae Dawn Chong

  • Arye Gross

  • James Earl Jones

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