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.
For 15 years now the parents have been leading an underground exsistence. Hiding among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. They had broken a taboo: they had conceived a daughter. A girl who has never "swapped clothes with her friends, never skipped classes in school, camped out at lakes, got drunk and broke off with her boyfriend in ice-cream parlours". A girl who is alone. The parents are just about to establish some sort of legal identity for themselves in Brazil, when a slight negligence causes everytingh to fall apart around them. And again they are one the run which brings them back to Germany. Meanwhile, their daughter has fallen in love. A love which whill lead to a tragedy and destroy the family.