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Heat Wave
(1990)

1h 40m

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Drama
TV Movie

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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.

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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    Cicely Tyson

    Ruthana Richardson

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    Blair Underwood

    Bob Richardson

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    Sally Kirkland

    Mrs. Canfield

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    James Earl Jones

    Junius Johnson

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    Margaret Avery

    Roxie Turpin

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    David Strathairn

    Bill Thomas

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    Glenn Plummer

    J.T. Turpin

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    Vondie Curtis-Hall

    Clifford Turpin

  • Paris Vaughan image

    Paris Vaughan

    Lada

  • Harold Pruett image

    Harold Pruett

    John Riggs

  • Adam Arkin image

    Adam Arkin

    Art Berman

  • Robert Hooks image

    Robert Hooks

    Reverend Brooks

  • Michael Greene image

    Michael Greene

    Mr. Canfield

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    Charlie Korsmo

    Jason (age 12)

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    T.E. Russell

    Dominique Freeman

  • Stephanie Covington

    Florence Blake

  • Janice McElroy

    Rachel Freeman

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    Christopher M. Brown

    Reggie Freeman

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    Emily Yancy

    Guidance Counselor

  • Roger Grato III

    Jason (age 6)

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    Marilyn Coleman

    Cora

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    Bebe Drake

    Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)

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    Mark Rolston

    Officer Zekanis

  • Randy Kirby

    Lt. Keyes

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    Pepper Sweeney

    Spook Hunter

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