CinemaOSMovie · 1990 · 1h 40m

Heat Wave

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

68%(5)IMDbHistoryDramaTV Movie

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

Directed byKevin Hooks

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 40m
Language
EN
Released
August 13, 1990

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
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

Creative team
Directed by
Kevin Hooks
Kevin Hooks
Written by
Michael Lazarou

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