Love the Hard Way Movie Review 2001

Would-be hipster writer Jack Grace (Brody) runs smalltime scams with his friend Charlie (Seda). Grad student Claire (Ayanna) falls for the romeo, even though she can see he's a loser. Though Jack cheats on her, Claire hangs around, even deciding that the best way to keep him is to join in Jack's con games. The characters are tedious as is the story; Grier shows up to give the film some spark in the small role of a cop out to bust Jack. "Inspired" by the Chinese novel "Fire and Ice" by Wang Shuo.

Distribution

Kino International, 333 W. 39th St., Ste. 503, New York, NY 10018, Phone: (212)629-6880, Toll-free: 800-562-3330, Fax: (212)714-0871, Email: contact@kino.com, URL: http://www.kino.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 104 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Scams, Stings & Cons, New York, New York, Cops

Screenplay

Peter Sehr, Marie Noelle

Cast

Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, Pam Grier, August Diehl

Cinematography

Guy Dufaux

Director

Peter Sehr

Music

Darien Dahoud

Other

Michael Barosky, Sue Jacobs, Christian Nauheimer, Peter Yasair, Kathryn Nixon, Debbie DeVilla

Producer

Wolfram Tichy, Kino International