Heat Wave
Heat Wave
Release: 1990-08-13
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 6.2
History
Drama
TV Movie
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cast
Cicely Tyson
as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
as Mrs. Canfield
Margaret Avery
as Roxie Turpin
Glenn Plummer
as J.T. Turpin
Michael Greene
as Mr. Canfield
Christopher M. Brown
as Reggie Freeman
James Earl Jones
as Junius Johnson
David Strathairn
as Bill Thomas
Adam Arkin
as Art Berman
Robert Hooks
as Reverend Brooks
Charlie Korsmo
as Jason (age 12)
Marilyn Coleman
as Cora
Bebe Drake
as Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Paris Vaughan
as Lada
T.E. Russell
as Dominique Freeman
Emily Yancy
as Guidance Counselor
Mark Rolston
as Officer Zekanis
Pepper Sweeney
as Spook Hunter
Vondie Curtis-Hall
as Clifford Turpin
Harold Pruett
as John Riggs
