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Soul Man (1986)

Soul Man (1986)

Comedy

He didn't give up, he got down.

Release Date: 1986, October 24
Directors: Steve Miner
Countries: United States of America
Production: The Steve Tisch Company
Cast: James Earl Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, M.C. Gainey, Maree Cheatham, Leslie Nielsen, Wallace Langham, Arye Gross, Rae Dawn Chong, Jeff Altman, Melora Hardin, Donald Hotton

Overview:

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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