Soul Man (1986)
"He didn't give up, he got down."
ThumbScore
👍 66%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 25%
(RT: 17%, MC: 33) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Arye Gross as Gordon Bloomfeld
Ann Walker as Mrs. Dunbar
Is Soul Man good?
It's divisive. 66% audience score, estimated from 173 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 25%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
