Film
Heat Wave
1990 · 1h 40m
History, Drama, TV Movie
TMDB 6.8 · 5 votes
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.
Cast
Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson
Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson
Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield
James Earl JonesJunius Johnson
Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin
David StrathairnBill Thomas
Glenn PlummerJ.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-HallClifford Turpin
Paris VaughanLada
Harold PruettJohn Riggs
Adam ArkinArt Berman
Robert HooksReverend Brooks