Heat Wave

The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.

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

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

Stephanie Covington

Florence Blake

Janice McElroy

Rachel Freeman

Christopher M. Brown

Reggie Freeman

Emily Yancy

Guidance Counselor

Roger Grato III

Jason (age 6)

Marilyn Coleman

Cora

Bebe Drake

Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)

Mark Rolston

Officer Zekanis

Randy Kirby

Lt. Keyes

Pepper Sweeney

Spook Hunter

Klexius Kolby

Makeup Artist

Kevin Hooks

Director

Michael Lazarou

Writer

Thomas Newman

Original Music Composer

Richard Hoover

Production Design

Mark Irwin

Director of Photography

Debra Neil-Fisher

Editor

Donna Stamps

Set Decoration

Robi Reed

Casting

Kathleen M. McKernin

Art Direction

Brad R. Loman

Costume Design

Lyn Matsuda Norton

Script Supervisor

Barbara Amato

Script Supervisor

Jane Prosnit

Production Coordinator

Danny Feld

Still Photographer

Russell Williams II

Sound mixer

Ron Horwitz

Supervising Sound Editor

Kevin Spears

Supervising Sound Editor

Albert Aquino

Boom Operator

Jeffrey J. Haboush

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Michael Herbick

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Donald O. Mitchell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

George Budd

Music Editor

Jophery C. Brown

Stunt Coordinator

Doug Coleman

Stunts

Sigurjón Sighvatsson

Executive Producer

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