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.

Heat Wave

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History Drama

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Top Billed 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

Release Date 1990-08-13
Runtime 1h 40m
Directors Kevin Hooks, Mark Irwin
Producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Writer Michael Lazarou