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    Heat Wave (1990) official movie poster - History, Drama film

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

    6.8/10
    1990
    1h 40m
    HistoryDramaTV 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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    Cast & Crew

    Director

    Kevin Hooks
    Cicely Tyson

    Cicely Tyson

    Ruthana Richardson

    Blair Underwood

    Blair Underwood

    Bob Richardson

    Sally Kirkland

    Sally Kirkland

    Mrs. Canfield

    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

    Paris Vaughan

    Paris Vaughan

    Lada

    Harold Pruett

    Harold Pruett

    John Riggs

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