If this movie were released today, people would be outraged and call to have this movie banned, especially thinking about how sensitive this generation is. Anyways, "Soul Man" is about a college aged white male named Mark who dresses up in black face in order to attend Harvard Law School. Once immersed in a black student's life, Mark finds that people are less lenient than he imagined and more prone to see him as a black person instead of a fellow student. He meets a young African-American student named Sarah Walker, whom he first only flirts with; gradually, however, he genuinely falls in love with her. As it turns out, she was the original candidate for the scholarship which he had usurped, and now she has to work hard as a waitress to support herself and her son George while studying. Slowly, Mark begins to regret his deed, and after a chaotic day-in which Sarah, his parents (who are not aware of his double life) and his classmate Whitney, who is also his landlord's daughter, make surprise visits at the same time-he drops the charade and openly reveals himself to be white.
C. Thomas Howell's acting is pretty good in this. I found the chemistry between C. Thomas Howell and Rae Chong Dawn very convincing. James Earl Jones' acting was very good. And Leslie Nielsen as Whitney's father was also pretty funny.
Overall, Soul Man has a John Hughes-esque feel to it, and is up there with Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weird Science. If you aren't easily offended, I recommend you check this out.
C. Thomas Howell's acting is pretty good in this. I found the chemistry between C. Thomas Howell and Rae Chong Dawn very convincing. James Earl Jones' acting was very good. And Leslie Nielsen as Whitney's father was also pretty funny.
Overall, Soul Man has a John Hughes-esque feel to it, and is up there with Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weird Science. If you aren't easily offended, I recommend you check this out.