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.
The great poet of struggle, love and Turkish language, Nazim Hikmet is transferred to the Bursa Prison in 1941. Inside, his fame grows into a legend. As the horror and misery of World War II rises, his 28-year sentence for "communist propaganda" is affirmed. Writing epic and platonic poems in the years he is consumed by Piraye's love, he falls for the passion of another love after spending ten years behind the bars. Torn between two romances, he decides to take his own life.