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Soul Man
Comedy
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy broad social comedy that uses mistaken identity to challenge privilege and expose institutional prejudice.
- Tone
- satirical, lighthearted, sentimental
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- racial prejudice, privilege, identity, inequality, education
- Setting
- contemporary 1980s, elite university campus and urban California
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