Soul Man
He didn't give up, he got down.
Film19861h 44m
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- Director
- Steve Miner
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1986-10-24
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
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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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