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.
Murat is a German teen of Turkish origin, who begins to experiment with his sexuality in the Berlin transvestite Turkish scene. His classmates and brother are hostile, and when he meets a nightclub performer Lola, a lost kindred spirit who immediately befriends him and tries to protect him from a well-guarded secret about his family. Lola's hustler boyfriend Bilidikid, a self-hating, James Dean inspired macho whop wants Lola to have a sex change operation so they might assume their proper place in society as husband and wife. As Murat navigates through this world of "no rules" he learns how hard it is to keep a secret in a small immigrant community.