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Soul Man

Release Date:October 24, 1986

Running Time:104 min

Genres:Comedy

Director

Cast

C. Thomas Howell Rae Dawn Chong Arye Gross James Earl Jones Melora Hardin Leslie Nielsen Ann Walker James B. Sikking Max Wright Jeff Altman Julia Louis-Dreyfus Maree Cheatham

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Synopsis

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.

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