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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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Heat Wave — Plot

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

  • Release date
  • August 13, 1990
  • Runtime
  • 100 min
  • Genres
  • History, Drama, TV Movie
  • Director
  • Kevin Hooks

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Heat Wave — Cast

Cicely Tyson photo Cicely Tyson Ruthana Richardson Blair Underwood photo Blair Underwood Bob Richardson Sally Kirkland photo Sally Kirkland Mrs. Canfield James Earl Jones photo James Earl Jones Junius Johnson Margaret Avery photo Margaret Avery Roxie Turpin David Strathairn photo David Strathairn Bill Thomas Glenn Plummer photo Glenn Plummer J.T. Turpin Vondie Curtis-Hall photo Vondie Curtis-Hall Clifford Turpin

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