Film
Heat Wave
1990 · 1h 40m · 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.
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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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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
Michael Greene
Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo
Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell
Dominique Freeman
Stephanie Covington
Florence Blake
Crew
- Kevin HooksDirector
- Michael LazarouWriter
- Sigurjón SighvatssonExecutive Producer
- Mark IrwinDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Debra Neil-FisherEditor
- Robi ReedCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- August 13, 1990
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
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