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.
Bored with her life as a housewife and her stale husband Siggi, Trixi Jancik plots to murder him for his savings. But after she's poisoned Siggi, she realizes he didn't have that much cash set aside. So Trixi begins going to the racetrack, where she meets a wealthy widower, whom she again marries and murders. Just as Trixi's beginning to make a career for herself, she attracts the attentions of Julius, a strange but rich S&M artist.