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 woman is set up to take the fall for her husband's murder. After serving prison time, she is released to discover that her husband's death was faked and her son is missing and had been put up for adoption. With the help of her parole officer, she goes on the search for her son and for her husband, but with the idea to kill the latter, knowing that to try her again for murder would constitute double jeopardy.
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Everything is what it seems in Paramount's latest action-adventure thriller. If you've seen the trailer, then you already know the formula. It's one part Ashley Judd, able-bodied heroine from "Kiss the Girls"; one part Tommy Lee Jones, erstwhile u.s. marshal from "The Fugitive"; and a whole lot of not-so-nifty storyline that follows him chasing her chasing a despicable louse who deserves what's coming to him.
The good news in this uninspiring enterprise is that director Bruce Beresford moves…
