Lucky Break (2002)

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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.

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Studio: Miramax Films

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 5, 2002

Running Time: 107 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: Germany

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: James Nesbitt, Olivia Williams, Christopher Plummer, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Lennie James, Frank Harper, Raymond Waring, Julian Barratt, Peter Wight

director: Peter Cattaneo, Max Gottlieb

Smalltime crook Jimmy botches a bank robbery, lands in prison and stages a musical, with his fellow British inmates, that turns out to be Act One of the perfect escape plan. The musical, about Napolean's adversary Lord Nelson, is ultimately the cover plan to orchestrate a jailbreak. But it's Act Two that's stumped Jimmy. His leading lady has captured his heart, and with one leg already over the wall, he's got to come up with a new ending... as the curtain falls fast on his freedom.

A group of British inmates stage their warden's play as a smokescreen for their escape.

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Oddly, the last movie this reviewer critiqued was the ho-hum prison comedy/drama Mean Machine, about a bunch of underdog soccer-playing Brit convicts who want to prove themselves, done in the vein of Snatch. This time, the inmates hit the stage instead of the field in this ho-hum prison comedy about a bunch of underdog singing Brit convicts who want to escape by distracting the guards, done in the vein…