MOVIE

Heat Wave

Name: Heat Wave
Director: Kevin Hooks
Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1990-08-13
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.

Release Date

1990-08-13

Year

1990

Duration

1h 40m

Status

Released

Score

6.20

Genres

History Drama TV Movie

#los-angeles,-california#urban-setting

Cast

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