Ruthana Richardson
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
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
1990
1h 40m
HistoryDramaTV Movie
Director: Kevin Hooks
Overview
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cast
Bob Richardson
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
Mrs. Canfield
Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
Junius Johnson
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
Roxie Turpin
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
Bill Thomas
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
J.T. Turpin
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
Clifford Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
Lada
Paris Vaughan
Lada
John Riggs
Harold Pruett
John Riggs
Art Berman
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
Reverend Brooks
Robert Hooks
Reverend Brooks
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