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.
A compulsive gambler named Kurt who is forced to take a chance with his own life. Kurt’s existence revolves around money: winning it, losing it, borrowing it, paying it back. His all-consuming addiction jeopardizes his relationship with his girlfriend, Manu. After seeing a television special about Mozart’s legendary system of composing music using dice, Kurt vows to let the dice determine every choice he will make hereafter, each number representing a possible option. This process gets him job offers and soon leads him to Tanja, a sexy, unruly drug addict whom he implicates in his increasingly obsessive game. But while it seems that luck is on his side and Kurt will redeem himself, living by such an arbitrary method can only lead to chaos and mania.