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.
Alby Cutrera, a hopelessly adolescent man, is kicked out of his home by his wife who gives him an ultimatum: don't come back until you grow up. Rather than do some much-needed soul searching, Alby goes looking for his childhood best friend to take a road trip to the one place on earth he knows will make no adult demands: Disneyworld. His friend Elias has grown up, however, and he remembers a less rosy version of their childhood. Namely, one full of taunts and humiliations as Alby's fall guy. Thus begins a journey along which the two men meet a cast of fellow failed romantics. Each one pokes a new hole in Alby's delusions of the golden days of youth. Without some regressive therapy, Alby is stuck. It's only by exploding the land mines of his past that he can move forward into his future.