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Soul Man is a film about a white law student who pretends to be black to get a scholarship at Harvard. The film was controversial for its use of makeup and faced criticism from the NAACP, but was a box office success.
Soul Man: Directed by Steve Miner. With C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones. To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
- (9.2K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Steve Miner
- 1986-10-24
17% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 35% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings. In order to win a scholarship, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell), the white son of an affluent psychiatrist, pretends to be black on his ...
- (24)
- Steve Miner
- PG-13
- C. Thomas Howell
" Soul Man " is a 1967 song written and composed by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by Atlantic Records soul duo Sam & Dave, [2] which consisted of Samuel "Sam" Moore and David "Dave" Prater.
Oct 20, 2021 · By Drew Weisholtz. It seems preposterous and inconceivable today: a comedy about a wealthy white student so desperate to attend Harvard Law School that he pretends to be...
- Drew Weisholtz
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and now, the party is over for the carefree, pampered, and very white California kid, Mark Watson.
Play Trailer. He didn't give up, he got down. Overview. 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.
