Home

Love the Hard Way (2002) [N/A]

Release Date:
February 1, 2002

Original Title:
Love the Hard Way

Alternate Titles:
Amar al límite
Amor ao Extremo
Hard Attraction
Hard Way
Love the Hard Way
Love the hard Way - Atemlos in New York
Relações Estranhas
Trudna miłość
Örvény
Горечь любви
Гіркота кохання
Любов по трудния начин

Genres:
Crime | Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
Daybreak Pictures Ltd.
P'Artisan Filmproduktion GmbH
Vif Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Dritte KG

Production Countries:
Germany | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 104

Overview from TheMovieDB

Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic activities, Jack has a regular scam going, ripping off foreign businessmen with his loyal mate Charlie and two actresses. But his tough guy exterior conceals a secret passion for old books, and he dreams of writing a novel one day. Jack falls hard for Claire's purity and curiosity. An unusual romance develops between them. But Jack is scared of their growing intimacy and rejects Claire, withdrawing into his shell. Abandoned and confused, Claire gradually begins to neglect her studies and embarks on a spiraling course of self-destruction, whilst Jack, who tries to ignore her, concentrates on his criminal activities. However, a sharp detective, named Linda Fox, is following his dodgy tracks.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Trailer

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Art Direction:
Peter Yesair

Casting:
Ellen Parks

Costume Design:
Kathryn Nixon

Director:
Peter Sehr

Director of Photography:
Guy Dufaux

Editor:
Christian Nauheimer

Executive Producer:
Marie Noëlle
Peter Sehr

Makeup Artist:
Claus Lulla
Nuria Sitja

Original Music Composer:
Dahoud Darien

Producer:
Wolfram Tichy
Jason Kilot
Joana Vicente

Production Design:
Debbie DeVilla

Set Decoration:
Lydia Marks

Sound:
Joo Fürst

Writer:
Marie Noëlle
Wang Shuo
Peter Sehr

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.