5.3 / 10
(153 votes)
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.
United States of America
Comedy
104 minutes
1986
Steve Miner
The Steve Tisch Company
$4,500,000
$35,000,000
1996
5.5
2006
6.5
1996
6.2
1984
3.9
1984
7.0
1999
7.0
1982
6.6
2003
5.5
1989
6.5
2007
5.9
2007
6.1
1997
6.5
2005
6.7
1953
7.9
1980
7.3
1998
6.6
1988
7.5
2006
7.1
1997
6.8
2000
5.3