

Heat Wave (1990)
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cast

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

Christopher M. Brown
Reggie Freeman

Emily Yancy
Guidance Counselor

Marilyn Coleman
Cora

Bebe Drake
Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)

Mark Rolston
Officer Zekanis

Pepper Sweeney
Spook Hunter