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.
Following the death of his mother, Dan McCarthy heads back to his family home in upstate New York to confront his brother Robert about why he wasn't at the funeral. Robert, once a talented pianist, now makes his living driving a delivery truck and spends much of his free time making his girlfriend Julie miserable. The situation comes to blows when Dan and Julie begin to have an affair.