Love the Hard Way
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings
- Summary: The story of the unlikely romance that develops between a con man, Jack (Brody), and a Columbia biology grad student, Claire (Ayanna).
- Director: Peter Sehr
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Crime
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Positive: 4 out of 20
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Mixed: 12 out of 20
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Negative: 4 out of 20
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75Not perfect; a vice cop played by Pam Grier is oddly conceived and unlikely in action, and the movie doesn't seem to know how to end. But as character studies of Jack and Claire, it is daring and inventive, and worthy of comparison with the films of a French master of criminal psychology like Jean-Pierre Melville.
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60It's too little Grier too late, but it's also fairly satisfying to watch.
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58Adrien Brody completists will appreciate Love the Hard Way, if only as an example of the kind of self-conscious, brat-noir projects their man probably won't be doing anymore.
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38Brody does have a mesmerizing presence and is the only reason to see a film that likely would have gone straight to video if he hadn't won that Oscar for "The Pianist."
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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