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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Sally Kirkland & James Earl Jones | |
| Performer: | David Strathairn, Margaret Avery, Glenn Plummer, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adam Arkin, Robert Hooks, Charlie Korsmo, T.E. Russell & Mark Rolston | |
| Directed by | Kevin Hooks | |
| Edited by | Debra Neil-Fisher | |
| Screenwriting by | Michael Lazarou | |
| Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
| Cinematography by | Mark Irwin | |
| Produced by | Jordan Kerner | |
| Executive Production by | Jon Avnet, Steve Golin & Sigurjon Sighvatsson |
Product Description:
The promise of better race relations and economic prosperity lure a young man from Alabama to the Watts District of Los Angeles in 1965. After landing a job as a messenger for the L.A. Times, he becomes responsible for much of the reporting that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize when a minor traffic arrest by two white officers sets off a week of brutal rioting on August 11, 1965.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Heat Wave
A powerful, fact-based drama set against the backdrop of the Watts riots of 1965. An aspiring black journalist, Bob Richardson, works as a messenger for the Los Angeles Times. After tensions flair in Watts, violence breaks out and Richardson gets a shot at the big time, reporting on the events and demanding change in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Product Info
- UPC: 053939746921
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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