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.
Focusing on hatred and homophobia in the heartland--an investigation of the 1993 murder of a handsome 20-year-old who arrived in a small Nebraskan town, made friends, and found a pretty girlfriend, and three weeks later on Christmas Eve was brutally raped when it was discovered that the likeable Brandon Teena was really Teena Brandon, a young woman living as a man. A week later, on New Year's Eve, the two rapists murdered Brandon and two hapless witnesses in what became a triple homocide.
There is nothing so tough as writing about controversial documentaries in an open, public forum. Especially when you've got to put your real name right there at the top of the piece. This week I was handed two such…
