Overview - Soul Man

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: C. Thomas Howell

  Character: Mark Watson

  Popularity: 19.185

  

• Name: Rae Dawn Chong

  Character: Sarah Walker

  Popularity: 10.819

  

• Name: Arye Gross

  Character: Gordon Bloomfeld

  Popularity: 4.395

  

• Name: James Earl Jones

  Character: Professor Banks

  Popularity: 23.465

  

• Name: Melora Hardin

  Character: Whitney Dunbar

  Popularity: 15.616

  

• Name: Leslie Nielsen

  Character: Mr. Dunbar

  Popularity: 37.883

  

• Name: Ann Walker

  Character: Mrs. Dunbar

  Popularity: 1.557

  

• Name: James B. Sikking

  Character: Bill Watson

  Popularity: 8.945