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.
After she is suddenly abandoned by her fiance, Hyun-jung decides to respond to the relentless courtship of Sanghoon, a man working in the same building as she. Sang-hoon has been persisting for days, showering her with flowers, inviting her to operas and picnics and generally displaying the usual cliched wooing tactics. Despite being obviously mismatched, they come from very different backgrounds and have disparate tastes and expectations. They are both in search of a brand new love and seemingly willing to overcome this disharmony in order to make the relationship work. A wedding and pregnancy are the consummation of their getting together, but deep at the bottom of their union, something is wrong and waiting to sour their marital happiness -- something for which they will eventually have to apologize.