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Soul Man (1986)

Comedy | 104 minutes
2,56 116 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 104 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Steve Miner

Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong and Arye Gross

IMDb score: 5,3 (9.744)

Releasedate: 24 October 1986

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Soul Man plot

"He didn't give up, he got down."

Mark sees no problems in his near future and his education. He can go to Harvard and his parents have enough money to pay for all this. But then his father decides to close the money tap, and Mark is left to figure out how to make ends meet and pay his school fees. The only thing he can turn to is a fund just for black students. No problem, all he needs is an overdose of skin coloring pills and a different way of talking and acting, he thinks.

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StevenMighty

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Watched this after hearing about it on a list of films that wouldn't be allowed nowadays because of the 'woke' nonsense we know today.

I have no problem at all with imitating any breed, that should be possible.

In an interview from that time with Spike Lee, I agree that it is rather lame that the other (black) characters simply imply that Mark is also black, while he looks like a white person imitating Michael Jackson for a playback show or something. So here the idea is somewhat created that they are a lot of idiots who don't see that. Maybe it wasn't the intention of the makers, I have no idea.

Then the film itself. He was fun to watch at times, but I was never in fits of laughter, even though this is a comedy. So this Soul Man is not a high-flyer, but definitely watch it if you want to see something that could never be made today (and that in itself is very sad).

2.5 stars

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Filmkriebel

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I thought the humor was really special, not at all like most standard 80s comedies. I didn't think the racial humor was crude and I liked that, for example that shades of gray / shades of pink joke by Whitney. Unfortunately, the story also misses an opportunity to shatter African-American stereotypes. Or to use. There was more to it. And Howell looks completely ridiculous as a black person. Very unbelievable that no one recognizes him as a white person in disguise, for example his own parents in that long (clumsily handled) scene in which his parents, that slut Whitney and his fellow student come to his house and he wears a balaclava over his head pulls. This should be the climax of the film but it is a completely botched and botched scene. A reasonable comedy that is partly ruined by the irritating main character. And it is not so wrong that it will wake up the wokists. Just a 3*

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