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5.3A 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.
Released: 1986-10-24104 minDir: Steve MinerComedyBudget: $4.5MBox office: $35.0M
Cast
- C. Thomas Howell as Mark Watson
- Rae Dawn Chong as Sarah Walker
- Arye Gross as Gordon Bloomfeld
- James Earl Jones as Professor Banks
- Melora Hardin as Whitney Dunbar
- Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Dunbar
Themes
- scholarship
- secret identity
- harvard university
- college
- los angeles, california
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Ratings
IMDb
5.3/10
9,608 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
17%
Metacritic
33/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Steve Miner
- Cast member
- Jeff Altman
- Composer
- Tom Scott
- Producer
- Steve Tisch
- Narrative location
- Massachusetts
- Duration
- 104
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 1987-05-21
- title
- Soul Man
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 17%
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