Anthony Edwards in Downtown

'When you pound this beat, it pounds you back.'

In 1990s Downtown, actor Anthony Edwards plays officer Alex Kearney, a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, an affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia.  That is until, he stops an important businessman and his account of the incident is not believed. 

As punishment, he is assigned to work Downtown, considered the most dangerous, high-crime precinct in the city. Everyone at the precinct is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered cop is going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as his partner), killed. Sergeant Dennis Curren (Forest Whitaker) draws the unfortunate 'babysitting' assignment. However, when Alex's best friend is killed investigating a stolen car, Alex throws the book out the window tracking down the killer.

Despite a great cast, which also included Penelope Ann Miller and Joe Pantoliano, the film was not exactly a box office success. The film received mostly negative reviews. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called the film racist for picturing "the inner city as an all-black criminal hell-town where the men who walk the streets are much less human than the people in the all-white suburbs

The film is notable however, for featuring Edwards' only nude scene. The nudity is sort of manufactured in an odd scene which finds Kearney being held down and stripped by a family after knocking on their door while on duty. Contrived, but it does give us our only on-screen view of Anthony's ass.