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.

Released: 1990-08-13

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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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Cicely Tyson

as Ruthana Richardson

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Blair Underwood

as Bob Richardson

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Sally Kirkland

as Mrs. Canfield

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James Earl Jones

as Junius Johnson

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Margaret Avery

as Roxie Turpin

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David Strathairn

as Bill Thomas

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Glenn Plummer

as J.T. Turpin

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Vondie Curtis-Hall

as Clifford Turpin

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Paris Vaughan

as Lada

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Harold Pruett

as John Riggs

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Adam Arkin

as Art Berman

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Robert Hooks

as Reverend Brooks

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Michael Greene

as Mr. Canfield

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Charlie Korsmo

as Jason (age 12)

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T.E. Russell

as Dominique Freeman

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Stephanie Covington

as Florence Blake

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Janice McElroy

as Rachel Freeman

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Christopher M. Brown

as Reggie Freeman

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Emily Yancy

as Guidance Counselor

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Roger Grato III

as Jason (age 6)

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Klexius Kolby

Makeup Artist

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Kevin Hooks

Director

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Michael Lazarou

Writer

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Thomas Newman

Original Music Composer

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Richard Hoover

Production Design

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Mark Irwin

Director of Photography

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Debra Neil-Fisher

Editor

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Donna Stamps

Set Decoration

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Robi Reed

Casting

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Kathleen M. McKernin

Art Direction

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Brad R. Loman

Costume Design

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Lyn Matsuda Norton

Script Supervisor

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Barbara Amato

Script Supervisor

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Jane Prosnit

Production Coordinator

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Danny Feld

Still Photographer

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Russell Williams II

Sound mixer

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Ron Horwitz

Supervising Sound Editor

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Kevin Spears

Supervising Sound Editor

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Albert Aquino

Boom Operator

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Jeffrey J. Haboush

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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