Heat Wave (1990)

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

6.8 August 13, 1990 1h 40m Released
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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Cast

  • Cicely Tyson

    Cicely Tyson

    Ruthana Richardson

  • Blair Underwood

    Blair Underwood

    Bob Richardson

  • Sally Kirkland

    Sally Kirkland

    Mrs. Canfield

  • James Earl Jones

    James Earl Jones

    Junius Johnson

  • Margaret Avery

    Margaret Avery

    Roxie Turpin

  • David Strathairn

    David Strathairn

    Bill Thomas

  • Glenn Plummer

    Glenn Plummer

    J.T. Turpin

  • Vondie Curtis-Hall

    Vondie Curtis-Hall

    Clifford Turpin

  • Paris Vaughan

    Paris Vaughan

    Lada

  • Harold Pruett

    Harold Pruett

    John Riggs

  • Adam Arkin

    Adam Arkin

    Art Berman

  • Robert Hooks

    Robert Hooks

    Reverend Brooks

  • Michael Greene

    Michael Greene

    Mr. Canfield

  • Charlie Korsmo

    Charlie Korsmo

    Jason (age 12)

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