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.
Title | Soul Man |
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Year | 1986 |
Genre | Comedy |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | The Steve Tisch Company |
Cast | C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen |
Crew | Carol Black (Screenplay), Jeffrey Jur (Director of Photography), David Finfer (Editor), Steve Tisch (Producer), Steve Miner (Director), Tom Scott (Original Music Composer) |
Keyword | scholarship, secret identity, harvard university, college, los angeles, california |
Release | Oct 24, 1986 |
Runtime | 104 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 5.33 / 10 by 148 users |
Popularity | 15 |
Budget | 4,500,000 |
Revenue | 35,000,000 |
Language | English |