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.
C. Thomas Howell | Mark Watson |
Rae Dawn Chong | Sarah Walker |
Arye Gross | Gordon Bloomfeld |
James Earl Jones | Professor Banks |
Melora Hardin | Whitney Dunbar |
Leslie Nielsen | Mr. Dunbar |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Lisa Stimson |
Ann Walker | Mrs. Dunbar |
David Reynolds | Ernie (as Dave Reynolds) |
James B. Sikking | Bill Watson |
Amy Stoch | Kim |
Wallace Langham | Barky Brewer |