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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.
Theatrical
Oct 24, 1986
Box Office
$35.0M
Budget
$4.5M
Return
7.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 19, 2002
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
The Steve Tisch Company
Cast
Full credits →C
C. Thomas Howell
Mark Watson
R
Rae Dawn Chong
Sarah Walker
A
Arye Gross
Gordon Bloomfeld
James Earl Jones
Professor Banks
M
Melora Hardin
Whitney Dunbar
L
Leslie Nielsen
Mr. Dunbar
A
Ann Walker
Mrs. Dunbar
J
James B. Sikking
Bill Watson
M
Max Wright
Dr. Aronson
J
Jeff Altman
Ray McGrady
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lisa Stimson
M
Maree Cheatham
Dorothy Watson
W
Wallace Langham
Barky Brewer
E
Eric Schiff
Booey Fraser
R
Ron Reagan
Frank
M
Mark Neely
Brad Small
D
David Reynolds
Ernie
W
Wolfe Perry
Leon
J
Jerry Pavlon
Bruce Wizansky
L
Laurel Green
Zendel
