Heat Wave

1990 6.2 (4 votes) 1h 40m

Genres

History Drama TV Movie

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

Overview

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

Key Crew

Director: Kevin Hooks

Director of Photography: Mark Irwin

Writer: Michael Lazarou

Top Cast

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

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