Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
August 13, 1990
100 min
✓ Released 13206 days ago
History
Drama
TV Movie
6.8
User Score
5 votes
About
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Kevin Hooks
Runtime: 100 min
Top 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
