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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.

13 Aug 1990
100 mins
6.2
4 votes
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
  • 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

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