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.
Eloïse, 36, is a property lawyer in Paris. Young, good-looking and successful, she is nonetheless single. To end her solitude, and because deep down she desires a love-life that she initiates and controls like her career, she signs up with a speed-dating club. After all, isn't that all about being fast and efficient, too? Seven men, seven women, seven minutes to work their charm. Then the bell rings.