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Heat Wave(Movie, 1990)

1h 40min | Genres: History, Drama
Heat WaveRating: 3.5/5 (with 11 vote)
Heat Wave is a 1990 American thriller-drama television film about the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, and David Strathairn. ()
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About Heat Wave

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

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/13/1990
Director: Kevin Hooks
Director of Photography: Mark Irwin
Composer: Thomas Newman

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Other movies with this title: Heat Wave (GB, 1935), Heat Wave (JP, 1991), Heat Wave (DE, 2008), Heat Wave (CA, 2009), Heat Wave (US, 2010), Heat Wave (FR, 2011), Heat Wave (BE/FR, 2015), Heat Wave (2023)

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