Heat Wave

Heat Wave

🎞️ Movie 100 min US
โ˜… 6.8 /10 1990

The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.

The events that led to the 1965's racial riots in Watts, Los Angeles, are covered by a black messenger-turned-reporter at the L.A. Times, as he was one of the first correspondents to arrive at the scene. The movie also follows the troubled times he, his family and friends went through in one of the most tense and sad moments in American history.

Cast

Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
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Paris Vaughan
Lada
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Harold Pruett
John Riggs
Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman
Composer
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Mark Irwin
Cinematographer