Soul Man

5.4 / 10

(145 votes)

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Comedy

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1986

Director:

Steve Miner

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Company:

The Steve Tisch Company

Budget:

$4,500,000

Revenue:

$35,000,000

Cast:
C. Thomas Howell

Mark Watson

Rae Dawn Chong

Sarah Walker

Arye Gross

Gordon Bloomfeld

James Earl Jones

Professor Banks

Melora Hardin

Whitney Dunbar

Crew:
Steve Miner

Director

David Finfer

Editor

Jeffrey Jur

Director of Photography

Carol Black

Screenplay

Steve Tisch

Producer