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Heat Wave
Heat Wave
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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.”

6.2/ 10(4 votes)
1h 40m
August 13, 1990
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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Directed byKevin Hooks

Cast (25)

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

Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin

Art Berman

Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks

Reverend Brooks

Michael Greene

Michael Greene

Mr. Canfield

Charlie Korsmo

Charlie Korsmo

Jason (age 12)

T.E. Russell

T.E. Russell

Dominique Freeman

Stephanie Covington

Stephanie Covington

Florence Blake

Janice McElroy

Janice McElroy

Rachel Freeman

Christopher M. Brown

Christopher M. Brown

Reggie Freeman

Emily Yancy

Emily Yancy

Guidance Counselor

Roger Grato III

Roger Grato III

Jason (age 6)

Marilyn Coleman

Marilyn Coleman

Cora

Bebe Drake

Bebe Drake

Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)

Mark Rolston

Mark Rolston

Officer Zekanis

Randy Kirby

Randy Kirby

Lt. Keyes

Pepper Sweeney

Pepper Sweeney

Spook Hunter

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