Heat Wave

Name: Heat Wave
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Sally Kirkland, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery

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

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Cast & Crew

Director: Kevin HooksWriter: Michael LazarouProducer: Sigurjón Sighvatsson

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

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