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.

• DirectorSteve Miner
• Release24 October 1986
• GenreComedy
• Duration1h 44m
• Budget$4,500,000
• Revenue$35,000,000
• Rate
  

  5.283
  157 reviews
• Productions

  The Steve Tisch Company