Soul Man
Soul Man
Release: 1986-10-24
·Runtime: 104m
·★ 5.3
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
The Steve Tisch Company
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
Ann Walker
as Mrs. Dunbar
James B. Sikking
as Bill Watson
Max Wright
as Dr. Aronson
Jeff Altman
as Ray McGrady
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
as Lisa Stimson
Maree Cheatham
as Dorothy Watson
Wallace Langham
as Barky Brewer
Ron Reagan
as Frank
Mark Neely
as Brad Small
Wolfe Perry
as Leon
Laurel Green
as Zendel
John David Bland
as Seth
Donald Hotton
as Mr. Wicher
Jonathan Wise
as Andrew
Amy Stoch
as Kim
Paul O'Brien
as Officer Schkolnick
M.C. Gainey
as Jail Cell Bigot