An attorney is hired to defend a notorious mobster which he has been trying to send away for years while working as a prosecutor.

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

An NYPD Detective (Michael Keaton) and his struggle for justice, while taking care of his late partner's three little girls after he is killed in the line of duty.

An eager rookie cop gets transferred to tough, Philly downtown after stopping a powerful man for traffic violations. When his old cop buddy is murdered, he wants in on catching the killer.