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Soul Man (1986)
Directed by Steve Miner
Overview
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 104 minutes
Actors
C. Thomas Howell | Rae Dawn Chong | Arye Gross | James Earl Jones | Melora Hardin | Leslie Nielsen | Ann Walker | James Sikking | Max Wright | Jeff Altman | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Maree Cheatham | Wallace Langham | Eric Schiff | Ron Reagan | Mark Neely | David Reynolds | Wolfe Perry | Jerry Pavlon | Laurel Green | John David Bland | Jonathan 'Fudge' Leonard | Felix Nelson | Betty Cole | Bo Mancuso | Donald Hotton | Linda Hoy | Robert Burleigh | Jonathan Wise | Amy Stock-Poynton | Paul O'Brien | M.C. Gainey | Freddie Dawson