Heat Wave

Heat Wave

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

1990 History Drama TV Movie • 6.2 • 100 min

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

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