
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