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

Kevin Hooks
Director
Michael Lazarou
Writer

Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor

Mark Irwin
Director of Photography
Jane Prosnit
Production Coordinator

Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Executive Producer
Richard Hoover
Production Design

Robi Reed
Casting
Brad R. Loman
Costume Design
Klexius Kolby
Makeup Artist
Kevin Spears
Supervising Sound Editor
Ron Horwitz
Supervising Sound Editor
Michael Herbick
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jeffrey J. Haboush
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Russell Williams II
Sound mixer
Albert Aquino
Boom Operator

Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
George Budd
Music Editor
Donna Stamps
Set Decoration
Danny Feld
Still Photographer
Lyn Matsuda Norton
Script Supervisor
Barbara Amato
Script Supervisor

Doug Coleman
Stunts

Jophery C. Brown
Stunt Coordinator
Kathleen M. McKernin
Art Direction



















