Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
Lex lifts $10 from his mom and takes his younger brother Mick out for pizza. Walking home, Lex is shaken down by a plain-clothes cop who begins to sodomize the younger boy. Lex stabes the cop and is sent away to reformatory. As adults, Mick has joined the police force and Lex has gotten a local girl pregnant and is now trying to make ends meet by driving a school bus. He ultimately fails and Mick is placed in the position of having to choose between loyalty to his uniform or to the brother who once protected him on the streets.
