Review of Soul Man (1986) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Tribune — 20 Jan 1991
Howell, a second-string Rob Lowe, has the title role in this embarrassing variation on "Black Like Me," a half-witted collegiate farce guaranteed to offend just about everybody. Blacks are stereotyped as they haven't been in decades, and whites are portrayed as Boston bigots and selfish preppies.
But the really pathetic thing about this tired old knee-jerker is not that it's racist, but that it's racist and doesn't even know it.
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This review of Soul Man (1986) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Tribune on 20 Jan 1991.
Soul Man has generally received mixed reviews.
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