Soul Man (film)

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Soul Man is a comedy movie made in 1986 about a man who undergoes transracial transformation with pills to qualify for an affirmative action placement at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Taglines:

• Mark needs a scholarship to get into Harvard. There's one more available for a black student. The problem is Mark's not black... Yet.
• He didn't give up. He got down.

[edit] Controversy

In 1986 when the film was released it caused a big stir up among the African-American community because throughout most of the film C. Thomas Howell is in black face make up.

[edit] External links

• Soul Man at the Internet Movie Database