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 television writer is blackmailed by a co-worker with whom he is having an affair. When he arrives at her house to have it out with her, he discovers that she has been murdered. He becomes the prime suspect while the real killer -- another fellow co-worker who had been being blackmailed by the victim -- begins to fabricate evidence against him. But when the writer discovers who the real killer is he uses the media to catch the true murderer.