Heat Wave
1990-08-13A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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

Ruthana Richardson
Cicely Tyson

Bob Richardson
Blair Underwood

Mrs. Canfield
Sally Kirkland

Junius Johnson
James Earl Jones

Roxie Turpin
Margaret Avery

Bill Thomas
David Strathairn

J.T. Turpin
Glenn Plummer

Clifford Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall

Lada
Paris Vaughan

John Riggs
Harold Pruett

Art Berman
Adam Arkin

Reverend Brooks
Robert Hooks

Mr. Canfield
Michael Greene

Jason (age 12)
Charlie Korsmo

Dominique Freeman
T.E. Russell
Florence Blake
Stephanie Covington
Rachel Freeman
Janice McElroy

Reggie Freeman
Christopher M. Brown

Guidance Counselor
Emily Yancy
Jason (age 6)
Roger Grato III

Cora
Marilyn Coleman

Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Bebe Drake

Officer Zekanis
Mark Rolston
Lt. Keyes
Randy Kirby

Spook Hunter
Pepper Sweeney