Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
Angela meets a man called Captain Howdy on the Internet and makes a date with him. He turns out to be a psychopath and strings her up with her lips sewn shut. Her father is one of the detectives assigned to the case, and they catch the culprit. However, he is released from the mental hospital only a few years later and the angry townspeople try to lynch him. He survives and wreaks his revenge, both on the vigilantes and Angela.