Soul Man poster
Director Steve Miner
Screenplay Carol Black

Soul Man

Comedy1986

Tagline: He didn't give up, he got down.

Release Date: 1986-10-24

Duration: 104 minutes

Synopsis

A caucasian 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.

Casting

  • James Earl Jones
    Professor Banks
  • Leslie Nielsen
    Mr. Dunbar
  • C. Thomas Howell
    Mark Watson
  • Melora Hardin
    Whitney Dunbar
  • Rae Dawn Chong
    Sarah Walker
  • James B. Sikking
    Bill Watson
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Lisa Stimson
  • Wallace Langham
    Barky Brewer
  • Maree Cheatham
    Dorothy Watson
  • M.C. Gainey
    Jail Cell Bigot