
#36 Box Office Hit of 1986
Soul Man (1986)
"He didn't give up, he got down."
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

Mark Watson
C. Thomas Howell

Sarah Walker
Rae Dawn Chong

Gordon Bloomfeld
Arye Gross

Professor Banks
James Earl Jones

Whitney Dunbar
Melora Hardin

Mr. Dunbar
Leslie Nielsen

Mrs. Dunbar
Ann Walker

Bill Watson
James B. Sikking

Dr. Aronson
Max Wright

Ray McGrady
Jeff Altman

Lisa Stimson
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Dorothy Watson
Maree Cheatham
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