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Hoopla trailer

Soul Man (1986)

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.

Genres: Comedy, Romance
Keywords: tmdb.secret-identity, tmdb.college, tmdb.scholarship, tmdb.los-angeles-california, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.white-man-as-black-man, imdb.passing-for-black + 72 more, imdb.white-pretending-to-be-black, imdb.white-male-pretending-to-be-black, imdb.racial-stereotype, imdb.playing-basketball, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.university-student, imdb.pulled-over-by-the-police, imdb.study-date, imdb.criminal-law, imdb.implied-sex, imdb.running-gag, imdb.racist-joke, imdb.secret-revealed, imdb.happy-ending, imdb.studying, imdb.cambridge-massachusetts, imdb.ivy-league, imdb.male-underwear, imdb.reference-to-stevie-wonder, imdb.friend, imdb.royal-canadian-mounted-police, imdb.blackface, tmdb.harvard-university, imdb.1980s, imdb.teen-comedy, imdb.teen-movie, imdb.law-student, imdb.love-interest, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.best-friends, imdb.college-roommate, imdb.single-mother, imdb.college-life, imdb.deception, imdb.massachusetts, imdb.vacation, imdb.scholarship, imdb.psychiatrist, imdb.hawaii, imdb.sidekick, imdb.satire, imdb.racism, imdb.race-relations, imdb.male-female-relationship, imdb.professor, mdblist.rotten, imdb.title-based-on-song, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.young, imdb.teenager, imdb.man, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.law-professor, imdb.interracial-romance, imdb.interracial-relationship, imdb.harvard-university, imdb.friendship, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.dinner, imdb.buddy, imdb.bronzing-skin-lotion, imdb.boy, imdb.black-american-stereotype, imdb.black-american-slur, imdb.basketball, imdb.african-american-stereotype, imdb.african-american-slur, imdb.law-school, imdb.role-reversal, imdb.independent-film, soundmix.dolby-stereo, aspectratio.1-85-1
Watch Providers: Hoopla
Production companies: The Steve Tisch Company

Country: United States
Languages: English

Runtime: 104 min.
Released: Oct. 24, 1986
Status: Released
Budget: $4,500,000
Revenue: $35,000,000
Certification: PG-13 / 13+
poster

Soul Man (1986)

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.

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Keywords: tmdb.secret-identity, tmdb.college, tmdb.scholarship, tmdb.los-angeles-california, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.white-man-as-black-man, imdb.passing-for-black + 72 more, imdb.white-pretending-to-be-black, imdb.white-male-pretending-to-be-black, imdb.racial-stereotype, imdb.playing-basketball, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.university-student, imdb.pulled-over-by-the-police, imdb.study-date, imdb.criminal-law, imdb.implied-sex, imdb.running-gag, imdb.racist-joke, imdb.secret-revealed, imdb.happy-ending, imdb.studying, imdb.cambridge-massachusetts, imdb.ivy-league, imdb.male-underwear, imdb.reference-to-stevie-wonder, imdb.friend, imdb.royal-canadian-mounted-police, imdb.blackface, tmdb.harvard-university, imdb.1980s, imdb.teen-comedy, imdb.teen-movie, imdb.law-student, imdb.love-interest, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.best-friends, imdb.college-roommate, imdb.single-mother, imdb.college-life, imdb.deception, imdb.massachusetts, imdb.vacation, imdb.scholarship, imdb.psychiatrist, imdb.hawaii, imdb.sidekick, imdb.satire, imdb.racism, imdb.race-relations, imdb.male-female-relationship, imdb.professor, mdblist.rotten, imdb.title-based-on-song, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.young, imdb.teenager, imdb.man, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.law-professor, imdb.interracial-romance, imdb.interracial-relationship, imdb.harvard-university, imdb.friendship, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.dinner, imdb.buddy, imdb.bronzing-skin-lotion, imdb.boy, imdb.black-american-stereotype, imdb.black-american-slur, imdb.basketball, imdb.african-american-stereotype, imdb.african-american-slur, imdb.law-school, imdb.role-reversal, imdb.independent-film, soundmix.dolby-stereo, aspectratio.1-85-1

Watch Providers: Hoopla

Production companies: The Steve Tisch Company

Country: United States
Languages: English

40
5.3
/9444/
60
/237/
53
/154/
2.3
/5045/
17
/24/
35
/183/
33
/12/
Hoopla trailer
Runtime: 104 min.
Released: Oct. 24, 1986
Status: Released
Budget: $4,500,000
Revenue: $35,000,000
Certification: PG-13 / 13+

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