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.
Fox and his sidekick X work for a global corporation which is determined to headhunt scientific genius Hiroshi from a rival company. Fox is a criminal who will be paid a vast amount if he can somehow persuade Hiroshi to defect. He offers Sandii, a singer and prostitute, $1 million if she can seduce Hiroshi away from his wife and thence from his job. She succeeds, but goes on to betray her employer. Fox is left in expectation of his own murder for having failed to come up with the goods.