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Heat Wave1990

★6.8100 minHistoryDramaTV Movie

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

Director

Writer

Michael Lazarou

Score

Stars

Cicely Tyson Blair Underwood Sally Kirkland

Cast26

Cicely Tyson
as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
as Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones
as Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
as Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn
as Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
as J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
as Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan
as Lada
Harold Pruett
as John Riggs
Adam Arkin
as Art Berman
Robert Hooks
as Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene
as Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo
as Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell
as Dominique Freeman
S
Stephanie Covington
as Florence Blake
J
Janice McElroy
as Rachel Freeman
Christopher M. Brown
as Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy
as Guidance Counselor
R
Roger Grato III
as Jason (age 6)
Marilyn Coleman
as Cora
Bebe Drake
as Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Mark Rolston
as Officer Zekanis
R
Randy Kirby
as Lt. Keyes
Pepper Sweeney
as Spook Hunter
B
Betty Cole
as Elderly Woman

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