LOVE THE HARD WAY

Year: 2001
USA: Kino International
Cast: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, Pam Grier, August Diehl, Katherine Moennig, Michaela Conlin, Frank Hopf, Joey Kern, Sara Klingebiel, Francisco Lorite, Riley G Matthews Jr, Dave Simonds, Ned Stresen-Reuter, Ben Wang
Director: Peter Sehr
Countries: USA / Germany
USA: 104 mins
USA Release Date: 6 June 2003 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

Claire (Charlotte Ayanna), a goal-oriented Columbia University graduate student, meets Jack (Adrien Brody). Immediately unimpressed but intrigued by his bad-boy persona, Claire eventually agrees to meet him. Attraction quickly turns into infactuation and love.

Jacks runs a regular scam conning foreign businessmen with his partner Charlie (Jon Seda) and two struggling actresses. Though charmed by Claire's actual intellect, he pushes her away, just like he has with previous partners. Bereft and tramatized, Claire begins to neglect her studies and throws herself into a self-destructive downward spiral.

As Detective Linds Fox's (Pam Grier) efforts to expose Jack and Charlie's scam intensifies, the once self-assured Jack finds his world crumbing...