Heat Wave
movie
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
Released August 13, 1990
Overview
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cast
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
Crew
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Klexius Kolby
as
Makeup Artist
Kevin Hooks
as
Director
Robi Reed
as
Casting
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Kathleen M. McKernin
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Art Direction
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Jane Prosnit
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Production Coordinator
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Michael Lazarou
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Writer
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Brad R. Loman
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Costume Design
Debra Neil-Fisher
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Editor
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Lyn Matsuda Norton
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Script Supervisor
Russell Williams II
as
Sound mixer
Mark Irwin
as
Director of Photography
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Kevin Spears
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Supervising Sound Editor