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
Marilyn Coleman
as Cora
James Earl Jones
as Junius Johnson
David Strathairn
as Bill Thomas
Vondie Curtis-Hall
as Clifford Turpin
Bebe Drake
as Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Mark Rolston
as Officer Zekanis
Pepper Sweeney
as Spook Hunter
Glenn Plummer
as J.T. Turpin
Robert Hooks
as Reverend Brooks
T.E. Russell
as Dominique Freeman
Emily Yancy
as Guidance Counselor
Blair Underwood
as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
as Mrs. Canfield
Harold Pruett
as John Riggs
Adam Arkin
as Art Berman
Charlie Korsmo
as Jason (age 12)
Cicely Tyson
as Ruthana Richardson
Margaret Avery
as Roxie Turpin
Paris Vaughan
as Lada
Michael Greene
as Mr. Canfield
Christopher M. Brown
as Reggie Freeman
