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Cast & Crew
Mark Watson
Sarah Walker
Gordon Bloomfeld
Professor Banks
Whitney Dunbar
Mr. Dunbar
Critic Reviews for Soul Man
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (20)
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The comedy was out of date before they even made this, no matter how much they try and twist the ending.
June 7, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
In the end, however, it's let down by one easy laugh too many.
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It's a blithe, silly, good-natured movie and, of its kind, quite an enjoyable one.
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The pity is, it isn't even outrageous.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review… -
Of course, simply everyone is completely bamboozled by our hero's disguise, even though he now looks like a Ken doll with liver disease.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review… -
This is a genuinely interesting idea, filled with dramatic possibilities, but the movie approaches it on the level of a dim-witted sit-com.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Soul Man
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Mar 23, 2016Some of the scenes in the film where funny and overall the film wasn't boring or unwatchable. Taking pills that make your skin darker so that you can qualify for a university isn't terrible, but acting like a total jerk to other people once you're black is and it's also a little bit racist. Although I don't think it was intentional, it was still racist. The poster says " A comedy with a heart and soul. "...really?Tarin P Super Reviewer
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Mar 21, 2010This has got to be one of the most underestimated 80's movies around! Whatever happened to C. Thomas Howell? Criminal Minds TV?? He needs to be back doing films like this! Very funny moments in this and James Earl Jones is pricelss as well as I hate to say it Arye Gross?? I usually hate him but he was funny! Rae Dong Chongs really only good movie! Even Leslie Neilsen and Julia Louis Dreyfus did well in this classic!Matthew L Super Reviewer
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Feb 20, 2009"Soul Man" is an embarrassing movie that somehow manages to be simultaneously intentionally and unintentionally racist. C. Thomas Howell plays a pampered rich kid whose parents cut him off just as he's been accepted to Harvard law school. He takes an overdose of "tanning" pills and voila! he's african american! Add to that a cheap afro wig, and he's gets a fully paid scholarship reserved for african american students. C. Thomas really doesn't look ethnic at all though, he just looks like a guy in blackface. Not alot of laughs in this movie, either intentional or post-ironic, it's just sort of average (although the sight of 90 lb C. Thomas punching out two guys who go FLYING across the room is pretty entertaining- what was it about punching a guy in the 80s that caused him to go flying 20 feet across a building?). A completely pedestrian waste of time.Devon B Super Reviewer
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Oct 26, 2008Yeah, it's bad, and kind of racist, but I think it's probably well intentioned, just done badly. It has that bad 80's kind of appeal. Wanted to hate it, but just couldn't.Nicki M Super Reviewer
Soul Man Quotes
| Mark Watson: | Gordon, I love you. You're my buddy. and if you get in and i don't, I hope you rot in hell. |
| Mark Watson: | Gordon, I love you. You're my buddy, and if you get in and I don't, I hope you rot in hell. |
| Gordon Bloomfield: | I feel the same way! |
| Mark Watson: | thanks! |
| Mark Watson: | Thanks! |
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