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.
Oskar is a television weatherman. Like many fortysomethings, he tries to ward off his midlife crisis and his increasingly dissatisfying marriage with a steady stream of affairs. When he manipulates a weather report for the sake of flirting, the repercussions arequick to follow: Oskar finds himself jobless and wifeless. His carefree bachelor lifestyle--interlaced with lovers of varying ages--is not, however, idylilic.