Release Date | 1986-10-24 |
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Runtime | 104 minutes |
Genres | Comedy |
Stars | C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin |
Directors | Steve Tisch, Jeffrey Jur, Gregg Fonseca, Gene Serdena, Lisa Dean |
A caucasian 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.