

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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4.5M
- Box office
- $35M
- Language
- English
- scholarship
- secret identity
- harvard university
- college
- los angeles, california
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1324 Oct 1986
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12Originally a cut PG theatrically; raised to 15 uncut on video, downgraded 200620 Feb 1987
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP5 Aug 1987
GermanyDE
- Theatrical621 May 1987
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Soul Man was released on 24 October 1986.
Audience reviews
1- D6/10
Dan_Tebasco
3/20/2017
**Soul Man** Had heard a bit about this movie before I saw it, many times refered to as being racist. In fact COMPLEX MAGAZINE listed it as number 4 on a 'most racist movies' list they made. Watching it, I must say it's a whole lot less racist than I expected it to be. In fact I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's about a white guy who gets into Harvard but can't afford to go there so he looks for scholarsh…
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