ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

severine rubis I discovered this TV movie with Noelle parker in France recently on the net and i watched it because i am curious and i was thrilled by Drew barrymore and Alyssa milano' s versions but i quickly was disappointed.As i watched the movie i found it boring,with a lot of scenes with Joey buttafuoco in a motel and a Amy fisher recording herself on a tape to tell her story.But can we say that her version is credible? How can we be certain that the version of a 17 year old troubled teenager is the truth not knowing Buttafuoco 's version of the story..We only had her version of the facts in this movie and Amy seemed to be confused and a liar..okay she was 16 years old when she met Buttafuoco,okay this guy was married and she found him attractive but didn't she crash her car again and again with the only excuse to see him? Didn't she know he was married? And after a while she says that he took advantage of her..sorry but i didn't buy her version.Amy was old enough to know that Joey was married and she clearly insisted and she pretends that he forced her to be a hooker.Come on amy! This makes no sense. This guy wasn' t perfect that's obvious but Amy F wasn't a victim and the story would portray her as the only VICTIM.I don't believe that there was a victim AMy and a bastard ,joey.I am sure that reality is more complicated than this cheap movie and that real Amy wasn't a good girl that stayed at home after school and studied until dinner.She was troubled and had mental obsessions and she knew what she was doing when she shot on Mary Jo..So i noted this movie 3 .

Jason Daniel Baker Middle-aged creep auto body shop owner Joey Buttafuoco (Marinaro) aggressively pursues a sexual relationship with sixteen year old customer Amy Fisher - a crude yet curvaceous airhead, after doing work on her car. She inexplicably reciprocates the sinister older man's feelings resulting in a sordid and ill-fated affair that concludes with her shooting Buttafuoco's wife Mary-Jo in the face and being imprisoned for it.Based on a true story which was tabloid fodder back in the early 1990s this is a cheap exploration of a sequence of events which exhibited the quintessence of tackiness and seediness of late 20th century North American culture. It would all have had little resonance except for the violence of its conclusion. For those who look down upon others there was yet another evident justification for their reasons why.For those who look down upon American television and specifically made-for-TV movies this production appeared to offer definitive justification. The lack of imagination shown in crafting a teleplay gleaned straight from supermarket broadsheet headlines generally makes for poor screen writing. Worse, the requisite attention to the facts of the case limited access to any creative avenues which might have proved entertaining.The emphasis in productions like this is on capitalizing upon the tabloid mileage and commensurate word-of-mouth which captures the attention of potential viewers. Hastily produced so that its release coincides with the time in which the news item remains topical the finished product can be haphazard in quality. It can also come off as garish opportunism and pandering on the part of the network which broadcasts it. Yet there were multiple TV movie productions closely based upon the same news item.The only creativity readily evident here was in the absurd casting. Ivy League educated ex-pro football player Ed Marinaro - an Italian-American Ken doll portrayed thuggish lech Joey Buttafuoco. One of the most arresting things about the case was the fact that Buttafuoco looked like what he was - a crass, predatory and noticeably out of shape scuzzo. Marinaro, a romantic ideal for some women was not equipped to portray that effectively.

zephyr-123 I can remember when the Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco saga happened and it being in the news and all but, at the time, I was only mildly interested and mostly thought the whole situation (not including Mary Jo) was asinine.Recently, for some reason, I've been very interested and have seen all three movie versions to try and suss out what happened and why it happened. I think a lot of people (other than being drawn in by the sordidness of it all) just wanted to know, especially at the time that it happened, how something so bizarre could occur.The other two movie versions, The Amy Fisher Story with Drew Barrymore and Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story with Alyssa Milano are pretty good and well acted but feel kinda like the "tabloid" version in the way all parties involved are treated. In the AM version, Joey is depicted as a harmless victim and Amy like a psycho sex-pot (and kinda manic). The best thing about that movie is that it's the one where you get a very good viewpoint from what may have been Mary Jo's perspective and what she suffered. The DB version, depicts Amy as (exclusively) cold-hearted, cold-blooded, abusive to her parents, slut, etc. The problem with the way she is portrayed in those movies is that they feel like caricatures of a real person. I'm not saying that Amy doesn't have some of those aspects to her personality (she probably does), I just don't believe those one-dimensional interpretations of her. This movie, Lethal Lolita, which was a made-for-TV version also, feels the most realistic in it's interpretation of all parties involved. There isn't much of Mary Jo, but Amy, Joey, her friends and her parents all ring true in the way they are portrayed. The events and details unfold in a believable and much more understandable way. One of the problems I have with the other two movies is that they gloss over the issue of child molestation of Amy at the hands of her father. That is something that goes a long way in explaining some of Amy's "issues" and does a disservice to her by not making more of that point. This movie doesn't push that point heavily but does give it more importance. One of the things I liked about this version is that it gets more into the details of the party's personal motivations. Much of what is happening is subtle emotionally but more truthfully explains what happened, how it happened and why in a more objective, realistic and intelligent manner. I'd say if you're really that interested in the whole thing, watch all three. They are all fun to watch but I feel this one is the most believable.I think some people who don't like this version don't because it doesn't paint the people involved as all black or all white. They are mostly shown as being amazingly screwed-up, emotionally unstable, overly self-involved (narcissistic) with incredibly bad judgment. You do see Joey's manipulation of Amy more clearly though which isn't an excuse for her but at least gives a fairer telling of her story than the other two. If you don't care for a version with subtle complexities that you have to pay attention to to catch, you'll probably like the other versions better.One more note, another reviewer mentioned that they paid $90 for their tape. I know some dealers in Amazon were charging outlandish prices for this flick--some aren't. It's not worth $90. Personally, I don't think any movie is worth $90.

BreanneB I give this movie no stars at all. This is not the real story, it's fabricated, fictional and stupid. I have Amy's new book "If I Knew Then", it tells in there that it's not the real story. She only met with that Sheila Weller once and her attorney Eric Naighberg sold her rights to a production company to come up with her bail money. They should make a movie out of her new book.Spoilers Contained HereinAmy Fisher, shoots her lover's wife, but the woman doe not die, she gets caught and sentenced to 5-15 years in the Albion Correctional Facility but her sentence is later reduced to 3 to 11 years and she is let out after seven years. Mary Jo publicly forgave her. She is now married with three kids.