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.
Ju-feng is a lonely woman who owns a dress design business, who has recently seperated from her husband, and dotes on her long-absent brother Chuen-sheng. She strikes up a friendship with a woman who has stolen her cell phone. The woman, Mei-li, mentions that she has slept with a man who claims to have had sex with his own sister. Soon it is revealed that Chuen-sheng is the guy, a revelation that forces Ju-feng to deal with a long-buried chapter from her past.