Soul Man (1986)

"He didn't give up, he got down."

5.3 October 24, 1986 1h 44m Released

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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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
Ann Walker

Mrs. Dunbar
James B. Sikking

Bill Watson
Max Wright

Dr. Aronson
Jeff Altman

Ray McGrady
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lisa Stimson
Maree Cheatham

Dorothy Watson
Wallace Langham

Barky Brewer
Eric Schiff

Booey Fraser

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