Soul Man

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Dec 16, 2018 I personally thought its a great film. As Rae Dawn Chong stated "itï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)s really making white people look stupid.", which is completely true. The performances of all actors are spot on and a funny script. Classic 80s film. See more

Oct 26, 2018 I thought it was hilarious

Luke W Jul 13, 2018 It's weird, I used to like this movie in the 80's & 90's. Back then it seemed like a movie promoting integration & hating Racism. It seemed like it was a reasonably good comedy about how Racism is bad, but I just watched it again after a long period of not seeing it, & now it seems actually a little bit racist. It Now I am older, less innocent, & more well read, I have started noticing a few things in the movie that make one feel uncomfortable. There seems to be definite read between the lines undertones of actual racism & pretending to not be racist. I have always loved the song SOUL MAN by Sam & Dave. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this. I would have thought there would have been public outcry and anger if they had heard what i have heard on this movie, when it first was shown at the cinemas. During the Basketball scene, they play Sam & Daves - SOUL MAN song, & at the end of the song, I am sure I can hear a dubbed bit of the song with someone else saying the line "...and be your MONKEY boyfriend" - the actual songline should be "...and be your only boyfriend"... Which has left me wondering.. is it just my video copy that has this dubbed line? Was it on all versions of the Soul Man movie? Did people hear this when the movie came out and complain about it? Am I the only person who has noticed it? Who put this line in the song? And why? Because to me, that is the most racist part about this movie, & I only noticed it yesterday. How was the movie allowed to be released with this line in it? I wonder if James Earl Jones knows about it? I wonder why he was in a movie that was supposedly against racism, but has actual real racist undertones to it. I no longer like this movie, even if I liked it when I was younger... See more

Hermione P Mar 3, 2017 C. Thomas Howell gets into Harvard law school, but his dad (James B. Sikking) declines the offer to pay his tuition. Unable to find any means to pay it, he stumbles upon an unclaimed scholarship for black students who have been accepted to Harvard from Los Angeles. Naturally he pretends to be black and gets the scholarship. Clearly not a film that would get made these days, even though it's perspective on race relations is pretty progressive. Howell learns things and they're all pretty straightforwardly right, and all the racial humour in the film is at the expense of racists. It's not a particularly well-written film with plot lines dropping and reappearing as conveniently required, but Howell is an okay lead, and some of the supporting cast, including James Earl Jones, Rae Dawn Chong, Jeff Altman, Julia Louis-Drefus and Leslie Nielsen, are quite good. A solid B-. See more

Albus W Jul 26, 2007 This seems like something Dave Chappelle would have come up with. I love it.

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