Heat Wave

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

CAST

Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson

Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson

Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield

James Earl JonesJunius Johnson

Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin

David StrathairnBill Thomas

Glenn PlummerJ.T. Turpin

Vondie Curtis-HallClifford Turpin

Paris VaughanLada

Harold PruettJohn Riggs

Adam ArkinArt Berman

Robert HooksReverend Brooks

Michael GreeneMr. Canfield

Charlie KorsmoJason (age 12)

T.E. RussellDominique Freeman