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.

Beesley's Ratings

Id

1257

Name

Soul Man

Genre

Comedy

Leads

Howell

Rating

6
Content Advisory

Parental guidance, Immorality - sexual, Bad Language, Sex, Crude Actions

Comments

None

Metadata from themoviedb.org

Genre Ids

Comedy

Id

12278

Popularity

12.929

Release Date

1986-10-24

Title

Soul Man

Vote Average

5.334

Vote Count

148

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$35,000,000

Runtime

104 minutes