Woman on Top (2000)

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Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna - "Love the Hard Way" (2001)
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Love the Hard Way

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.
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Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Sep 22, 2000
Running Time: 93 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career. There she meets an ambitious TV producer who, seeing a winning combination in her good looks and gift for cooking, gives Isabella her very own show. With a new life in a new city, Isabella embarks on a personal journey with her exhuberant, cross-dressing childhood friend, Monica, to discover not only her passion and potential, but the perfect recipe for coming out on top.
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Venezuelan-born helmer Fina Torres ("Celestial Clockwork") adopts the candy-shop approach to commercial storytelling, packing her film with enough sexy stars, bright South American colors and tangy bossa nova tunes to distract viewers from the lame predictability of Vera Blasi's script. Pinching ingredients from the Mexican food-and-sex smash "Like Water For Chocolate," the filmmakers cobble together a passable romantic fantasy in the Latin American magical-realist tradition. Too bad most of the… Continued

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December 10, 2000
Caramba -- if you haven't already drooled over Penelope Cruz in Spanish films such as All About My Mother or Jam-n Jam-n, which really gives you a gander, this innocuous fluff at least functions as a heads-up. Cruz will soon be a Hollywood fixture -- with Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses, with Johnny Depp in Blow, with Nicolas Cage in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, with Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky. What's she got? Youth, talent, beauty, sexiness, all on display here in a vacuum.

Directed by Fina… Continued

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Isabella Oliveira
Toninho Oliveira
Monica Jones
Cliff Lloyd
Alex Reeves
TV Director
Claudia Hunter
Little Isabella
Little Isabella
Isabella's Mother
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