Heat Wave (1990)
08/13/1990 (EN) • 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.
Overview
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Top Billed Cast
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
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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
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