Soul Man
“He didn't give up, he got down.”
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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Cast
33 people
C. Thomas Howell
Mark Watson
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Rae Dawn Chong
Sarah Walker
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Arye Gross
Gordon Bloomfeld
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James Earl Jones
Professor Banks
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Melora Hardin
Whitney Dunbar
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Leslie Nielsen
Mr. Dunbar
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Ann Walker
Mrs. Dunbar
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James Sikking
Bill Watson
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Max Wright
Dr. Aronson
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Jeff Altman
Ray McGrady
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lisa Stimson
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Maree Cheatham
Dorothy Watson
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Steve Miner Director · Carol Black Screenplay Tom Scott Composer
Worldwide gross $35M · Budget $4.5M · United States release October 24, 1986
Box office
Budget
$4,500,000
Worldwide gross
$35,000,000
Gross vs. budget
7.8×
Production
The Steve Tisch Company
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 24, 1986
Theatrical
France
August 5, 1987 · Theatrical
Germany
May 21, 1987 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
February 20, 1987 · Theatrical · Originally a cut PG theatrically; raised to 15 uncut on video, downgraded 2006
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