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.

• The Steve Tisch Company
• C. Thomas Howell
• Rae Dawn Chong
• Arye Gross
• James Earl Jones
• Melora Hardin
• Leslie Nielsen
• Ann Walker
• James B. Sikking