Heat Wave

6.8 1990 100 min
History Drama TV Movie

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

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Director
Kevin Hooks
Writer
Michael Lazarou

Cast

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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

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