Heat Wave

Movie 1990 · 1h 40m

The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.

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Heat Wave

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Cast

20 people

Cicely Tyson Ruthana Richardson

Blair Underwood Bob Richardson

Sally Kirkland Mrs. Canfield

James Earl Jones Junius Johnson

Margaret Avery Roxie Turpin

David Strathairn Bill Thomas

Glenn Plummer J.T. Turpin

Vondie Curtis-Hall Clifford Turpin

Paris Vaughan Lada

Harold Pruett John Riggs

Adam Arkin Art Berman

Robert Hooks Reverend Brooks

Michael Greene Mr. Canfield

Charlie Korsmo Jason (age 12)

T.E. Russell Dominique Freeman

S Stephanie Covington Florence Blake

J Janice McElroy Rachel Freeman

Christopher M. Brown Reggie Freeman