Love the Hard Way

2001
R
1h 44m

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6.3/10

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Pam Grier, Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, and Jon Seda in Love the Hard Way (2001)

The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.

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Crime Drama Romance

The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Michaela Conlin's debut.

Quotes
Jack: What kind of movies do you prefer, the ones with the sad endings or the happy ones?
Claire: The sad ones definitely. I like movies that make me cry.
Jack: Then you're with the right guy.

Alternate versions
Current prints available have two on-screen copyright statements: 2001 listing the 2 copyright owners and "2003 final cut." The initial showings at various film festivals in 2001 and 2002 were obviously different than the final 2003 theatrical released version.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Hollywood Homicide/2 Fast 2 Furious/Love the Hard Way (2003)

Soundtracks
Miss NYC
Performed by Me and the Other Guy
Written by Didi Gutman and Rahj

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6/10

Love the Hard Way review

Absorbing enough drama of doomed love that fails to provides its two protagonists with any kind of emotional consistency, and too often leaves us wondering just why they do the things they do. Brody plays a small-time hustler who's secretly writing a novel in a storage container while Ayanna is the straight-A biology student who falls under his improbable spell. A better writer might have had us believing, but not writer/director Peter Sehr.