Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
1990-08-13 | 100 minutes
Plot Summary
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cast
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Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson
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Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson
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Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield
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James Earl JonesJunius Johnson
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Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin
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David StrathairnBill Thomas
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Glenn PlummerJ.T. Turpin
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Vondie Curtis-HallClifford Turpin
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Paris VaughanLada
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Harold PruettJohn Riggs
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Adam ArkinArt Berman
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Robert HooksReverend Brooks
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Michael GreeneMr. Canfield
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Charlie KorsmoJason (age 12)
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T.E. RussellDominique Freeman
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Christopher M. BrownReggie Freeman
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Emily YancyGuidance Counselor
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