17%
Tomatometer
35%
Popcornmeter
5.3
TMDB
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.
Soul Man - C. Thomas Howell - Trailer
Budget
$4.5M
Revenue
$35M
Studio
C. Thomas Howell
Mark Watson
Rae Dawn Chong
Sarah Walker
Arye Gross
Gordon Bloomfeld
James Earl Jones
Professor Banks
Melora Hardin
Whitney Dunbar
Leslie Nielsen
Mr. Dunbar
Ann Walker
Mrs. Dunbar
James B. Sikking
Bill Watson
Max Wright
Dr. Aronson
Jeff Altman
Ray McGrady
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lisa Stimson
Maree Cheatham
Dorothy Watson
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Critics consensus
“Critics had a whole lot less than a truckload of good loving for this woefully misguided take on race in '80s America.”
Title
Soul Man
Released
Oct 24, 1986
Rated
PG-13
Region of Origin
United States of America
Original Audio
English
Runtime
1h 44m
Status
Released
Studio
The Steve Tisch Company
