Heat Wave
History
Drama
TV Movie
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
1990-08-13
en
Cast
Director
Kevin Hooks
Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones as Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery as Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn as Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer as J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan as Lada
Harold Pruett as John Riggs
Adam Arkin as Art Berman
Robert Hooks as Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene as Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo as Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell as Dominique Freeman
Christopher M. Brown as Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy as Guidance Counselor
Marilyn Coleman as Cora
Bebe Drake as Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Mark Rolston as Officer Zekanis
Pepper Sweeney as Spook Hunter