04 Apr 2000
Gedo
East meets West as the Japanese Yakuza battle drug lords and the LAPD in the streets of Los Angeles...
Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Top Billed Cast
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
Janice McElroy Rachel Freeman
Christopher M. Brown Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy Guidance Counselor
Roger Grato III Jason (age 6)
Marilyn Coleman Cora
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