Heat Wave (1990)
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
- Released
- 1990-08-13
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kevin Hooks
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
- Blair Underwood as Bob Richardson
- Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
- James Earl Jones as Junius Johnson
- Margaret Avery as Roxie Turpin
- David Strathairn as Bill Thomas
- Glenn Plummer as J.T. Turpin
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Clifford Turpin
- Paris Vaughan as Lada
- Harold Pruett as John Riggs
- Adam Arkin as Art Berman
- Robert Hooks as Reverend Brooks
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