Heat Wave (1990)

PG-138/13/1990History, Drama, TV Movie1h 40m

62%

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"The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero."

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Kevin Hooks

Director

Thomas Newman

Composer

Cicely Tyson

Ruthana Richardson

Blair Underwood

Bob Richardson

Sally Kirkland

Mrs. Canfield

James Earl Jones

Junius Johnson

Margaret Avery

Roxie Turpin

David Strathairn

Bill Thomas

Glenn Plummer

J.T. Turpin

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Clifford Turpin

Paris Vaughan

Lada

Harold Pruett

John Riggs