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.
Shy and insecure twelve-year-old Juliette is convinced she is the favourite pupil of her French teacher, Mrs. Solenska, a woman full of humor and creativity. When Juliette goes to her teacher's house in secret, she sees Antoine, a slightly older and particularly handsome classmate, leaving Mrs. Solenska's house. Believing that he is having a secret affair with her teacher, Juliette starts to hate him and her tortured imagination runs wild.