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.
Finn, a middle-aged English teacher, enters a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy. As he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals, encounters ensue and sales are made, but Finn’s anxieties begin to consume him as he finds himself pursued by an unrelenting ghost. Circling through sleepless nights and desperate days, Finn is lead toward an unexpected and sublime awakening.
Thanks to South Park, the term "movie about gay cowboys eating pudding" has become shorthand in my house for "self-consciously artsy crap that makes you squirm in your seat, yearning for the exit." The sort of film that, if it…
