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Heat Wave

1990 "The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero."
Heat Wave
6.8| 1h40m| en| Drama, History
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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  • Heat Wave 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

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