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.
Rino Hanssen is thirty, obsessed with porn and has never been with a woman. He lives in an apartment owned by his father and has only one friend: the asthmatic, misantropic Filip. Suddenly his father rents out one of the rooms in the apartment to a young girl named Malin, an emancipated and seemingly unconcerned individual who seeks affirmation through sex, friends and a wild life. All of a sudden, Rino's strong fortress has been invaded by the world which he has worked so long on shutting out. Through his acquaintance with Malin and her friends, Rino gradually takes the chance of becoming part of the world he through his entire life has tried to avoid, and he is doomed to fail.