Heat Wave (1990)

Name: Heat Wave
Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1990-08-13
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Sally Kirkland, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery

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.

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Released 1990-08-13 · 100 min · History, Drama

Directed by Kevin Hooks

Cast

Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones as Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery as Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn as Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer as J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan as Lada
Harold Pruett as John Riggs
Adam Arkin as Art Berman
Robert Hooks as Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene as Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo as Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell as Dominique Freeman