Soul Man (1986)

10/24/1986 1h 44m

He didn't give up, he got down.

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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.

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C. Thomas Howell

as Mark Watson

Born 12/07/1966, age

Rae Dawn Chong

as Sarah Walker

Born 02/28/1961, age

Arye Gross

as Gordon Bloomfeld

Born 03/17/1960, age

James Earl Jones

as Professor Banks

Born 01/17/1931, age

Melora Hardin

as Whitney Dunbar

Born 06/29/1967, age

Leslie Nielsen

as Mr. Dunbar

Born 02/11/1926

Died 11/28/2010, age

James B. Sikking

as Bill Watson

Born 03/05/1934, age

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

as Lisa Stimson

Born 01/13/1961, age

Maree Cheatham

as Dorothy Watson

Born 06/02/1940, age

Wallace Langham

as Barky Brewer

Born 03/11/1965, age

M.C. Gainey

as Jail Cell Bigot

Born 01/18/1948, age