Soul Man
He didn't give up, he got down.
5.4 / 10
104 minutes
1986-10-24
English
US
Actors :
C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen, Ann Walker, James B. Sikking, Max Wright, Jeff Altman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maree Cheatham, Wallace Langham, Eric Schiff, Ron Reagan
Description
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.
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Dan_Tebasco
6/23/2021, 3:57:55 PM
**Soul Man** Had heard a bit about this movie before I saw it, many times refered to as being racist. In fact COMPLEX MAGAZINE listed it as number 4 on a 'most racist movies' list they made. Watching it, I must say it's a whole lot less racist than I expected it to be. In fact I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's about a white guy who gets into Harvard but can't afford to go there so he...