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.
In the ninth lunar month, a breeze sweeps the streets of Hsinchu, a small town west of Taipei. It murmurs of change, shaking the foliage of an old tree under whose branches a group of adolescents boys meet. Headed by the charismatic, heartthrob Yen, the high-school boys gather to read comics, talk about girls, and generally strengthen their already solid collective male bond.Recording the months preceding the boys' graduation in 1997, we witness the first Taiwanese game-fixing baseball scandal of those years as a metaphor for the boys' loss of innocence.
