Soul Man (1986)

While the '80s produced countless great films throughout the decade, it is also home to some of the more insensitive and downright offensive films in recent memory. Lo and behold we have 1986's Soul Man, about a pampered white man looking to take advantage of a black scholarship to Harvard by taking tanning pills to darken his skin, curling his hair, and adding “soul” to his voice after his wealthy father decides to let him pay his own way through school. The premise itself is self-explanatory as to why this wouldn't be made today, but how it actually made its way to theaters in the '80s is still baffling.