ridiculous rating

not horrible nor great

A Major Disappointment

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Interesting and compelling depiction of a sordid crime from the early Nineties that provided lots of fodder for the tabloids. Jack Scalia is excellent as Joey Buttafuoco. Alyssa Milano is scary as the obsessive seductress Amy Fisher, and Phyllis Lyons is superb -- showing impressive range as Joey's blameless and beleaguered wife, Mary Jo. Also very good is Lawrence Tierney in the small role of Joey's frustrated father. This TV movie attempts to show how the relationship between Joey and Amy wrecked all manor of havoc. The director shows us people who don't put much thought into the consequences of their actions. They live for the moment with a lot of emotional fireworks -- the effects on their loved ones be damned. One flaw in the film is its haziness as to the motivation of Amy, who apparently was already involved with a new married boyfriend at the time she shot Mary Jo in the head. As long as LMN is showing this 20- year-old film, it should add a written epilogue to complete the story.According to Wikipedia, Joey -- who in the movie consistently denies he ever had sex with Amy -- ended up serving four months for statutory rape. Mary Jo worked toward securing an earlier release for Amy -- she'd been sentenced to 15 years -- and filed for divorce.It had all begun when Amy drove her dented car into Joey's body shop. This riveting film is a reminder of how a chance encounter can lead to mayhem.

Wow, this is wicked awesome. I was sitting around this Saturday afternoon, looking for something to watch and Lo and Behold "Long Island Lolita Story" appears on the TV. On the Lifetime network - of course! This is the same channel I've seen such classics as "No One Would Tell" starring Kevin Arnold and DJ Tanner and "Unwed Father" starring David Silver from the original 90210.Anyway, its clear Joey Buttafuoco was totally 100% innocent. I mean sure...he actually pled guilty to statutory rape, and in the ensuing years he's been arrested for fraud and solicitation of hookers, so you see, he's just a real nice guy that just was hit on by a slutty long island Lolita, he never slept with her or did anything wrong! Watch this movie any chance you get!

This film is not very good. That is the best thing I can say about this shocking piece of work. Very bad acting. Hilarious at times. Did anyone pay money to see this? It is wrong on so many levels. So many! It reminded me of a soft porn in parts. I watched this with my cat and he even thought it so crap he got up and left the room. I think that maybe this film had potential if the script was ripped up and urinated on it. Amy Fisher is dangerous. That is a fact. "Serial killers don't get 2million bail", so true. A 17 year old kid. That is the story. I checked out the credits for the directors name and surprised to find out that he made good few film after this one. 10/10 for my patience to see this film all the way through. It was a test in the finest art of torture. Classic hair cut on that bloke.He's 37? Good one. Look more like 52. The wife is probably the worst actor ever. But it hard to say who is the worst ever, because so many of the worst actors ever to be on my TV screen were all piled into one when they made this. The best part was when the wife sets off the metal detector with the bullet in her head.

I live on Long Island and at the time the next town over from Amy Fisher. THis is what was going around after this came down. First is the only reason this case became so popular even before the trial or anything was know about the characters involved it because the press was at the scene as son as it happened. Not the usual amount of press but big time press WHy? Because the Buttafucoes lived on the same block of a Mafia associate and they thought the shooting happened at his resident..thus all the press coverage. Secondly I remember Mary Joe being in big time denial about her husband. Her mother even said she wished she had married a man as good as Joey. She actually lost a lot of sympathy because of that. People saw Joey and Amy together all of the time. He made no secret of the affair. He even took his kids with them on a few outings. Whatever the case the man was to old to be dealing with a confused teenager. there was no doubt where I lived he was sleeping with her and leading her on. His family's auto body place was on the corner of Grand Ave. and Merrick rd A major street in Baldwin. I passed it a million times but never paid attention to it until the shooting. After that people would drive to that corner just to get a glance of Joey. He actually became a minor celeb on Long Island. This did not help his case,because he was real cocky people thought he should of gotten locked up because he had to have something to do with the shooting. That was always out there. We knew Amy was fast but the guys were always men who were too old for her. She had a lot of family problems. I always felt very bad for her mother. She seemed to have gone through a lot. People would go to the motels they went to and try to stay in the rooms they stayed in. It was a joke. In any case Amy shot his wife and she was wrong but he should of went to jail too. Now on to the movie. Jack Scalia is a very good looking slim Joey. believe me the real life Joey was not a looker. He plays him as a man who was stalked by this teenager, and never touched her. Well we all know that was not true because motel clerks/receipts attested to the opposite. he should of known better. Allyssa Milano plays a very good looking Amy. Amy by no means was a Fox is portrayed as a predatory sex fiend. She was fast but not without Joeys help. The woman who plays Mary Jo is the truest role on the movie, she sounds and looks just like Mary Jo. THe location of the movie is not Long Island and it doesn't come close. One scene Joey is at a carnival and asks Amy why came so far. Well Massapequa is only around 15 minutes away from Merrick. THese are all south shore towns and Sunrise Hwy goes right through them all. And Merick is only 4 towns away. So the dialog couldn't even get the locations right. I figure at least get the area correct. Amy went to jail and she should of. Joey and Mary Jo moved to California he actually thought he could get into the movie business. The auto body shop which had been there for years closed down...very sad. Amy is out of jail now and she has a newspaper column which is very good. the Buttofucco's are divorced. Mary Jo seems to reconciled to the fact her hubby was not all innocent. But what is more interesting is that she has forgiven AMy which I thought would never happened. I really think Mary Jo is a strong woman now. What they should do is make a movie about the incident now, it is a true American Tragedy, but in the end things seem to turn out OK. This movie was rushed just like the other Amy Fisher movies and it shows. I liked that Lawrence Tierney plays the dd another very sympathetic person in this whole mess. Like Amy's mother he seemed like the whole world was on his shoulder and his auto body shop closed down.