Synopsis
The Hard Word (2002) — watch online on iFILM — is an Australian crime-comedy from writer-director Scott Roberts. Brothers Dale, Mel, and Shane have worked out a functional arrangement with prison: their crooked lawyer Frank sets up the jobs on the outside, they pull them from the inside.
Frank's latest plan is a raceday heist timed to the Melbourne Cup. The scheme starts coming apart when the prison guards learn about it and decide the simplest solution is to cut the brothers out entirely — permanently. Guy Pearce plays Dale, the controlled one, though he has his own reasons to distrust Frank that go well beyond the professional. Rachel Griffiths and Joel Edgerton round out the cast. What keeps the film interesting is the moral arithmetic: the actual criminals are more straightforward about what they are than the cops and lawyers nominally keeping them in line.
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