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.
The choices made by Eva, a pregnant 22-year-old with a dead end job and an absent boyfriend. Eva holds down an unfulfilling, underpaid job. Her mother has a habit of simply closing her eyes to anything she doesn’t wish to see and her father is slowly losing his mind. And here she is, carrying a child from a boyfriend who has left her. But Eva really loves life and when she learns that the tiny baby growing inside her can hear every word, she decides against an abortion. Instead, she begins to share her lust for life with her unborn child. Her outlook improves even more when she meets a sensitive man named Michal and falls in love with him. Just as Eva is beginning to feel completely liberated, she learns that she most probably will have a complicated birth and that her child may even die during labour. But it turns out that Eva has long since found the strength to cope with any problem that might arise.