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.
Griffin and Emily, cousins -- and secret lovers -- on the verge of adulthood, find themselves suffocating in the repressive emotional atmosphere of their hometown, Pine Apple, Mississippi. Desperate to leave but unable to move, they hover over their own lives until a mysterious drifter stumbles into town and awakens desires that can not be repressed.