Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
8/13/1990
Imdb: tt0099751
Tmdb: 297850
Popularity: 1.283
Vote: 6.2/10 (4)

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
Robert Hooks
Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene
Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo
Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell
Dominique Freeman
Stephanie Covington
Florence Blake
Janice McElroy
Rachel Freeman
Christopher M. Brown
Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy
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Roger Grato III
Jason (age 6)
Marilyn Coleman
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los angeles, california
urban setting