Soul Man (1986)
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.
- Released
- 1986-10-24
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Carol Black, Steve Miner
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 from 174 votes
Cast
- C. Thomas Howell as Mark Watson
- Rae Dawn Chong as Sarah Walker
- Arye Gross as Gordon Bloomfeld
- James Earl Jones as Professor Banks
- Melora Hardin as Whitney Dunbar
- Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Dunbar
- Ann Walker as Mrs. Dunbar
- James B. Sikking as Bill Watson
- Max Wright as Dr. Aronson
- Jeff Altman as Ray McGrady
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Lisa Stimson
- Maree Cheatham as Dorothy Watson
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