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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 08:59 PM Jun 2015

Ever see the movie Soul Man?

It's a long forgotten movie from 1986, largely because it is rather politically incorrect, and I can't recall ever seeing it played on cable tv. It did decently at the box office but got bad reviews.

It's about a white young man who dyes his skin black to get into Harvard on a race-based scholarship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Man_%28film%29

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Ever see the movie Soul Man? (Original Post) bluestateguy Jun 2015 OP
I watched it. bravenak Jun 2015 #1
I saw it too. It was like a bad tv movie. n/t FSogol Jun 2015 #2
Like Weekend at Bernies but not funny. bravenak Jun 2015 #3
Watermelon Man is much better, sort of the same theme tishaLA Jun 2015 #4
Godfrey Cambridge and Estella Parsons starred in that 1970 movie. John1956PA Jun 2015 #7
Yes. zappaman Jun 2015 #5
it was panned a lot but I liked it Skittles Jun 2015 #6

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
4. Watermelon Man is much better, sort of the same theme
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 09:17 PM
Jun 2015

Racist white guy wakes up one day and...whoops! He's black!

John1956PA

(2,681 posts)
7. Godfrey Cambridge and Estella Parsons starred in that 1970 movie.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 10:39 PM
Jun 2015

I thought the movie was thought-provoking.

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