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.
When François a humble restaurant car service valet at a posh Paris is inadvertantly photographed by a paparazzo leaving the hotel--along with the wealthy tycoon, Pierre, and his beautiful supermodel mistress Elena--he gets caught-up in a billionaire industrialist's sneaky infidelities. In a desperate attempt to avoid an ugly divorce with his wife Christine, Pierre's scheming lawyer concocts an outrageous plan. By paying the valet a large sum of money to live with Pierre's mistress, the two men hope to mislead the tabloids and most importantly hide the affair from his wife. Meanwhile the ruthless Pierre must convince the stunning Elena to live with François in his cruddy apartment until the dust settles. All the while, continuing to reassure his wife that the other man in the photo, François, is really Elena's boyfriend.