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    Soul Man

    1986

    English

    5.3

    ♡ 15

    17%

    35%

    Action

    college

    Comedy

    harvard university

    los angeles, california

    Romance

    scholarship

    secret identity

    Steve Miner Steve Miner Director Arye Gross Arye Gross as Gordon Bloomfeld M.C. Gainey M.C. Gainey as Man in Cell C. Thomas Howell C. Thomas Howell as Mark Watson Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Dunbar
    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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