A Closer Inspection of LGBT Characters in Film
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Heat Wave (1990)
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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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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Genre:History, Drama, TV Movie
Written By:Michael Lazarou
In Theaters:8/13/1990
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Runtime:100 minutes
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Cast
Kevin Hooks
Director
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan
Lada
Harold Pruett
John Riggs
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
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