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6.85 votes

Movie

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.

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

Top cast

Cicely Tyson

Ruthana Richardson

Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood

Sally Kirkland

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

Margaret Avery

David Strathairn

David Strathairn

Glenn Plummer

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Clifford Turpin

Paris Vaughan

Harold Pruett

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Keywords

los angeles, california urban setting

Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Michael Lazarou
Original language: English
Release date: August 13, 1990
Status: Released