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Soul Man

Name: Soul Man
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-10-24
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 5.253

★ 5,3 /10 (172 Votes)

1986 EN 104 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Release date

24/10/1986

Votes

172

Popularity

3.2

He didn't give up, he got down.

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

104 min

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$35,000,000

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**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 scholarships that he can take but the only one applicable to him is one designed for African Americans. So he fakes being black (with full blackface makeover and a 80's jerrycurl to match)…

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