Released:
1986-10-24

Overview:
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.

Director:
Steve Miner

Runtime:
1h 44min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  C. Thomas Howell
  as
  Mark Watson
• 
  Rae Dawn Chong
  as
  Sarah Walker
• 
  Arye Gross
  as
  Gordon Bloomfeld
• 
  James Earl Jones
  as
  Professor Banks
• 
  Melora Hardin
  as
  Whitney Dunbar