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Love the Hard Way (2001) 6.1
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Reviews: 39 user | 23 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Peter Sehr |
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Jack Grace
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Claire Harrison
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Charlie
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Jeff
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Pam
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Ned Stresen-Reuter | ... |
Brian
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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.
Plot Keywords:
thief | self destructiveness | watching tv | nudity | staten island new york city |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Release Date:
27 March 2003 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Amar al límite See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$10,721 (USA) (6 June 2003)Gross:
$43,571 (USA) (11 July 2003)Company Credits
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Vif Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Dritte KG, P'Artisan Filmproduktion GmbH, TiMe Film- und TV-Produktions GmbH See more »
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Claire: [Laughs] 200? Well Will Chamberlin said he slept with 20,000, so that kinda makes you look like a punk.
Jack: You know something...You really have a dumb laugh.
Claire: Hey listen, just cause I'm talking to you doesn't mean that I'm on the market. I have a boyfriend.
Jack: Sure you do, He's probably one of those piss ant preppy motherfu**ers who sh**s his pants every time Daddy's check is a day late.
Claire: He loves me.
Jack: Oh he loves you...
Claire: I don't think that's anything you know about.
Jack: ...
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Performed by Glen Moore
Written by Glen Moore
Courtesy of Intuition / Schott Musik
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Jack: I've slept with more than 200 women.Claire: [Laughs] 200? Well Will Chamberlin said he slept with 20,000, so that kinda makes you look like a punk.
Jack: You know something...You really have a dumb laugh.
Claire: Hey listen, just cause I'm talking to you doesn't mean that I'm on the market. I have a boyfriend.
Jack: Sure you do, He's probably one of those piss ant preppy motherfu**ers who sh**s his pants every time Daddy's check is a day late.
Claire: He loves me.
Jack: Oh he loves you...
Claire: I don't think that's anything you know about.
Jack: ...
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"Oxeye"Performed by Glen Moore
Written by Glen Moore
Courtesy of Intuition / Schott Musik
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This is a must for every Adrien Brody fan out there. Despite the dismal reviews this little known movie received, this movie is a true gem. Set in New York, Adrien plays Jack, a streetsmart con man who with his partner,Charlie, played by John Seda, rip off foreign businessman. Their actress friends pretend to be hookers, and seduce the businessmen, then Jack and Charlie break in dressed as policemen and make a fake arrest. In private, Jack is hard at work writing a novel, and frequently visits a run down movie theater where he meets Claire, played by Charlotte Ayanna. Claire is a "good girl" graduate student who eagerly ignores warnings not to date Jack. Jack is drawn to her innocence, while she is drawn to his charms and cleverness. Their first date begins with a pleasent little dinner and ends with a night of steamy sex in Jack's bed. From here the relationship becomes doomed. As the police slowly close in on Jack and Charlie, Jack does everything possible to end the relationship with Claire, it is at this point that they both begin to self-distruct. Their self-distruction leads them down a path that becomes a serious dose of reality for Claire and Jack. It's a story of love, jealousy, sex, betrayal, crime, suicide, it's a realistic love story and a lesson of everything that should not happen in a relationship.
Adrien Brody is outstanding in this one, and Charlotte Ayanna is also good. This is truely one of Adrien's best.