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.
Soul Man has generally received mixed reviews.
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Soul Man was released in 1986 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 93 reviews, giving Soul Man (1986) an average rating of 48%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 58%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 47%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Soul Man than critics were.
With a score of 48%, Soul Man is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1986, which stands at 58%.
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