Soul Man (1986)
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.
5 Kinolab Clips
The Color of His Skin
Gordon (Arye Gross) defends his friend (C. Thomas Howell) in Harvard Court and asks that Professor Banks (James Earl Jones) and the jury have mercy on Mark
Duration: 00:06:29
Contributor: Alex Miller
Blackface
Mark (C. Thomas Howell) tries to find a way to pay for his Harvard Law School tuition after his father (Leslie Nielsen) buys a house in Barbados
Duration: 00:07:15
Timestamp: 00:09:40
Contributor: Alex Miller
I'm a Soul Man
Mark (C. Thomas Howell) and his friend Gordon (Arye Gross) make their way to their home for the next four years: Harvard Law School
Duration: 00:03:09
Timestamp: 00:19:09
Contributor: Alex Miller
Fetishization
Mark (C. Thomas Howell) gets dinner with the Dunbar family, who each stereotype him in a different wa
Duration: 00:04:21
Timestamp: 00:38:35
Contributor: Alex Miller
Ending Sequence
Mark (C. Thomas Howell) tries to make amends with Sarah (Rae Dawn Chong)
Duration: 00:05:08
Timestamp: 01:31:35
Contributor: Alex Miller