Soul Man (1986)
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Cast
as Mark Watson
as Sarah Walker
as Gordon Bloomfield
as Prof. Banks
as Whitney Dunbar
as Mr. Dunbar
as Bill Watson
as Dr. Aronson
as Ray McGrady
as Lisa Stinson
as George Walker
as Mrs. Walker
as D.J.
as Man in Cell
as Mr. Wicher
as Mrs. Sherwood
as Officer Schkolnick
as Girl in Bed
as Mrs. Dunbar
as Andrew
Critic Reviews for Soul Man
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (19) | DVD (2)
In the end, however, it's let down by one easy laugh too many.
It's a blithe, silly, good-natured movie and, of its kind, quite an enjoyable one.
Of course, simply everyone is completely bamboozled by our hero's disguise, even though he now looks like a Ken doll with liver disease.
This is a genuinely interesting idea, filled with dramatic possibilities, but the movie approaches it on the level of a dim-witted sit-com.
The pity is, it isn't even outrageous.
Amiable but politically confused.
Audience Reviews for Soul Man
Yeah, 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.
Super Reviewer
"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.
Super Reviewer
Eh...
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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