Love Field

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Love the Hard Way

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.

Rating: PG-13

Running Time: 104 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham, Peggy Rea, Beth Grant, Johnny Ray McGhee, Cooper Huckabee, Troy Evans, Mark Miller

director: Jonathan Kaplan, Ralf D Bode, Gary Iida

Set in 1963, a Southern white woman en route to John F Kennedy's funeral in Washington, DC meets and eventually falls in love with a Northern black man who's on the lam after abducting his young daughter from an abusive situation.

April 18, 2001

Sarandon enjoys a sturdier vehicle for her talents [in Lorenzo's Oil] than Michelle Pfeiffer does in Love Field, a low-octane interracial romance between a chatterbox Dallas housewife. (Pfeiffer) and a black pharmacist (Dennis Haysbert) set in 1963. Yet Pfeiffer overcomes the poky direction of Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) and the unfocused script by Don Roos (of Single White Female infamy). She weaves magic in a portrayal of striking grace notes.

Pfeiffer's Lurene Hallett is fixated on the…