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.
Release Date | October 24, 1986 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Soul Man | |
Runtime | 1h 44min | |
Budget | $4,500,000 | |
Revenue | $35,000,000 | |
Language | English | |
Original Language | English | |
Production Countries | United States of America | |
Production Companies | The Steve Tisch Company |