TMDb Rating
6.2/10
4 verified votes
Heat Wave (1990)
HistoryDramaTV Movie
100 min
"The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero."
Plot Summary
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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HistoryDramaTV MovieKevin HooksCicely TysonBlair Underwood1990
Director
Kevin Hooks
Top Cast
Cicely TysonBlair UnderwoodSally KirklandJames Earl JonesMargaret Avery
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