Soul Man

1986 104 min Comedy

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.

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IMDb 5.3 RT 17 Metacritic 33

budget $4,500,000 earnings $35,000,000 return 7.8x

director Steve Miner

writer Carol Black

cast