Maybe we should post reviews! Here is my review of
Loving The Bad Man that I posted on Amazon: Watched this on TubiTV and which brought to tears to my eyes a couple times (no easy feat). Innocent and caring Christian teen get a flat on her car and looks for help at a bar and ends up getting helped by a young man who is a mechanic. But who is drunk and angry after having spontaneously beating up his boss for constantly berating him, and he ends up forcibly violating her. Her hard working father loathes the perpetrator, and when she tests positive as pregnant then he and his wife and her brother urge her to get an abortion, but which she adamantly refuses to do as that would be wrong. The rapist get arrested and sent to prison for 20 years while she gives birth to a healthy baby boy, whom she names after her uncle, "Arthur" (this approx. 2 min. section, beginning about 30 min. into the film, has no sound other than some crass music being loudly played ). After the new mother spends some months weaning her baby boy, she decides to forgive her rapist and show the love of God to him. She thus secretly visits the prison with her infant son, but at the first encounter the young man reacts in shock and denial that the child is his, and is incredulous that he would visit her and is verbally harshly towards the sweet well-meaning girl. Meanwhile, he is having conflicts in prison due to rival gangs, but he meets an aged man who becomes a friend and mentor, like a dad he never had, and who talks some sense into the young man who is tough and reactionary but searching. No one else visits him in the prison, but the mom and son keep returning, and with each successive visit his heart begins to soften, and shows some conscience and becomes genuinely happy to she her and his son. She gives him a Bible which he begins reading, and which he says takes away his desire for violence. However, her dad finds out she has been visiting him and at dinner he reveals this to the family and very angrily chastises her for doing so and deceptively keeping this a secret, and gives her and her illegitimate son (whom he refers to with the b word) 5 minutes to leave, which she does. At this stage another dimension of her life becomes very important. The young Christian assistant manager at the local supermarket (which the film introduced earlier), has a crush on her that she did not perceive at first (he is rather shy) but their relationship has grown somewhat, and she now meets him at the supermarket (where he is now acting manager). She pours out her heart and he shows himself to be a wise and perceptive spiritual counselor. And who goes to her dad (who knew him before) and offers to help him with something, and ends up working toward healing his relationship with his daughter. His humble confession and apology to her and their reconciliation is very touching. However, when she brings him to prison with her to meet the the young man then upon doing so (btwn strong glass) he manifest his vengeful self which he makes known to the man who violated his daughter (if words and looks could kill). Yet the young man is truly contrite and affirms that he deserves death. Meanwhile one prison gang has killed the older man, the friend of the young man, and has a contract out for the death of his child and his mother. Which places him in a situation whereby he can sacrificially be a peacemaker, having found peace with God thru Christ. There is no profanity in the film, nor nudity or the typical recourse to sensuality (the pregnant gilts swollen belly being shown is the closest to that) and the acting is fairly good, though varying with the actor/actresses) and the early music only detracts and I fast forward whenever that comes on as well as a couple other songs. Needs a better selection if any. Grace and peace thru Jesus the Lord.