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Heat Wave
Movie Facts
Runtime
100 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
1.4
Director
Kevin Hooks
Writers
Michael Lazarou

Heat Wave

1990 · ⭐ 7 · Votes: 2
“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.

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Genres

History Drama

Moods

Bleak Emotional

Cast

Adam Arkin Bebe Drake Blair Underwood Charlie Korsmo Christopher M. Brown Cicely Tyson David Strathairn Emily Yancy Glenn Plummer Hall Harold Pruett James Earl Jones Janice McElroy Margaret Avery Marilyn Coleman Mark Rolston Michael Greene Paris Vaughan Pepper Sweeney Randy Kirby Robert Hooks Roger Grato III Sally Kirkland Stephanie Covington T.E. Russell Vondie Curtis

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