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Heatwave

Heat Wave is a 1990 TNT Network television movie which aired on August 13, 1990.

Plot[]

Set in 1965, Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood) moves from Alabama to Los Angeles, California hoping to find more equality there as a black man.

After getting a job as a messenger for the Los Angeles Times, Robert finds himself covering the events of a race riot in L.A.'s Watts district.

Cast[]

  • Blair Underwood as Robert Richardson
  • Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
  • 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
  • Michael Greene as Mr. Canfield
  • Charlie Korsmo as Jason (age 12)
  • Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
  • T.E. Russell as Dominique Freeman

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