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Love the Hard Way

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.

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Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 19, 2001

Running Time: 84 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: Spain

starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox, Cavan Kendall, Julianne White, Alvaro Monje, Robert Atiko, Nieves del Amo Oruet

director: Jonathan Glazer

Ex-con Gary "Gal" Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking and explosive battle of wills with Logan, a battle that redefines his notions of love, honor and commitment.

June 7, 2001

Gary Dove (Ray Winstone), a retired Cockney gangster, thinks he has it made. Life is good on Spain's Costa del Sol, where Gary suns himself by the pool while his houseboy, Enrique (Alvaro Monje), does the sweating, and his wife, Deedee (the trashy and terrific Amanda Redman), a former porn star, hands him a beer. Then, boom! A boulder like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark thunders down from the hills, barely missing Gary and landing in his pool with a tile-cracking crash.

The boulder is…