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.
A story centering around Edward, an enigmatic, emotionally troubled British publishing executive who receives a new manuscript--set in 1960 Tunisia--from his old friend, Nicolas. Upon close examination of the script, Edward surmises that his "friend" is directly responsible for the tragic loss of his sole love, a Tunisian woman who committed suicide following her rape; thusly Edward slowly begins to plot literary revenge against this friend-turned-fiend.