Soul Man(Movie, 1986)

Name: Soul Man
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 2.7

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 44min | Genre: Comedy

Rating: 2.7/5 (with 63 votes)

Soul Man is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Steve Miner and written by Carol L. Black. C. Thomas Howell stars as a white male law student who pretends to be black in order to qualify for a scholarship. Its title refers to the song of the same name by Isaac Hayes and David Porter; the original soundtrack includes a version performed by Sam Moore and Lou Reed. The film garnered controversy, with Howell's makeup drawing comparisons to blackface, which prompted protests against the film upon its release. Despite the controversy and negative reviews from critics, Soul Man was a commercial success, grossing $35 million on a $4.5 million budget. ()

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About Soul Man

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.

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Trailer for Soul Man + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Soul Man - C. Thomas Howell - Trailer(Trailer, 1:58)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Massachusetts

Made by: The Steve Tisch Company

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 05/21/1987 (World premiere: 10/24/1986)

Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, Max Wright, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wallace Langham, M.C. Gainey, James Sikking, Maree Cheatham, Melora Hardin, Amy Stoch, Jeff Altman

Director: Steve Miner

Producer: Steve Tisch

Screenwriter: Carol Black

Film Editor: David Finfer

Director of Photography: Jeffrey Jur

Composer: Tom Scott

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Uma Escola Muito Louca"

"Soulman"

"Skolens 'sorte' får"

"Harvard: movida americana"

"Fehér feketében"

"Preto no Branco"

"Crn u duši"

"Свой в доску"

"Gri Adam"

Keywords: harvard university, los angeles, california, secret identity, college, scholarship

Budget: 4,500,000 USD

Revenue: 35,000,000 USD (= 778%)

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