Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
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- Drama
- History
- TV Movie
Overview
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Keywords
- los angeles
- california
- urban setting
- los angeles, california
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 13, 1990
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Cast
- Marilyn Coleman,Sally Kirkland,Pepper Sweeney,Blair Underwood,Bebe Drake,Mark Rolston,Janice McElroy,Emily Yancy,Harold Pruett,Betty Coleand 16 more
- Director
- Kevin Hooks
- Writer
- Michael Lazarou
- Producer
- Sigurjón Sighvatsson
- Cinematography
- Mark Irwin
- Music
- Thomas Newman
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0099751