Movie

Soul Man

★ 5.3/10 · 172 votes 1986 1h 44m Released

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.

Cast

C. Thomas Howell Mark Watson Rae Dawn Chong Sarah Walker Arye Gross Gordon Bloomfeld James Earl Jones Professor Banks Melora Hardin Whitney Dunbar Leslie Nielsen Mr. Dunbar