1h 40m1990
Heat Wave
“The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.”
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Story
Synopsis
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
- Director
- Kevin Hooks
- Writers
- Michael Lazarou
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Release date
- 13 August 1990
Ensemble
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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