Heat Wave

Name: Heat Wave
Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1990-08-13
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Sally Kirkland, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery

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

6.2(4 votes)

1h 40m

August 13, 1990

HistoryDramaTV Movie

Overview

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

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Released

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Heat Wave

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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

Paris Vaughan

Lada

Harold Pruett

John Riggs

Adam Arkin

Art Berman

Robert Hooks

Reverend Brooks

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