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.
Zampano, the gypsy, a travelling circus strong-man, buys a young woman from her destitute mother and makes her his assistant in the act, but his ill-treatment and abuse of her cause her to suffer greatly. Eventually, he leaves her only to regret his deed and then discover tragedy some years later.