Soul Man
1986 • Comedy
5.35 (153)
Steve Miner
Director
Status
Released
Release date
October 24, 1986
Duration
104 Min
Language
en
Popularity
12.521
Budget
$4,500,000
Revenue
$35,000,000
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.
Cast
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
Ron Reagan
Mark Neely
Wolfe Perry
Laurel Green
John David Bland
Donald Hotton
Jonathan Wise
Amy Stoch
Paul O'Brien
M.C. Gainey
