Soul Man(1986)

movie - first aired/released 1986-10-24 - 104 min - audience 5.3

Comedy

Directed by Steve Miner

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.