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.
A 16-year-old, married at the age of 14 to a man more than twice her age, explains that she desperately wants a divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old daughter, having already lost custody of her other child. One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years, he has refused to let her answer the phone. In Iran "craziness" is one of the few acceptable grounds for for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman; for men, divorce is granted upon request... Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenagers, others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm and chicanery to get what they want above all else: a divorce.
