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.
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Running Time: 121 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue German, subtitled English
It's the weekend, the dog days of summer. It's suffocatingly hot in the periphery of Vienna, in the no-man's land between the autobahn, hypermarkets, warehouses, and monotone housing tracts with their single family dwellings. People go around in their underwear, bikinis, or nothing at all. The temperature rises. It's an atmosphere of seething aggression. We are confronted with evenings of songs and games, sex and violence. Days full of the loss of love, the desire for love, and at the same time the hopeless impossibility of finding love.