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.
Meet the Greens: Joey Green ia a dry cleaning magnate with a crumbling empire who's fretting impotence and hair loss rather than his impending financial ruin. His wife Beth, an advice columnist for a national woman's magazine, is ready to feature her own marital strife in her publication. She is intensly frustrated that her husband hasn't been intimate with her in months. Joey longs for the ultimate panacea to his financial and bedroom agita by seeking the counsel of a most outrageous therapist. His recommendation is that Joey hire a high-priced, curvaceous call girl. When Beth walks in on them in a compromising position, she seeks revenge by realizing her pent-up desires for her chiropracter Lowell. When Beth finds out she is pregnant, she tries to hide her condition from everyone. Boy? Girl? She is not so much concerned with what it is, but whose it is.