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Soul Man

Comedy

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. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

Date: 10/24/1986

Rating: 5.3

Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen, Ann Walker, James B. Sikking, Max Wright, Jeff Altman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maree Cheatham, Wallace Langham, Eric Schiff, Ron Reagan, Mark Neely, David Reynolds, Wolfe Perry, Jerry Pavlon, Laurel Green, John David Bland, Jonathan 'Fudge' Leonard, Felix Nelson, Betty Cole, Bo Mancuso, Donald Hotton, Linda Hoy, Robert Burleigh, Jonathan Wise, Amy Stoch, Paul O'Brien, M.C. Gainey, Freddie Dawson

C. Thomas Howell