Heat Wave (1990)
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.
- Date of release
- 1990-08-13
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Kevin Hooks
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Los Angeles
Heat Wave is a 1990 American thriller-drama television film about the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, and David Strathairn.
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