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