Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Wonderful character development!

That was an excellent one.

Really Surprised!

Turned-on set to this just as it was beginning on "Lifetime," and had intended to go to another channel. But it was one of those instances where you watched for a minute or two, then another, then another..., etc.I could see at the outset that it presented Buttafuoco differently from the clownish lout I remembered from this whole well-publicized course of events.As I watched, I looked at the prior comments here, which quickly confirmed this. The actor portraying him was handsome, especially not having the real guys' homely, thin-lipped, weak mouth, and a facial look which cries out for the description "smarmy."One wouldn't have thought it possible to present the Amy Fisher character, on-screen, as being a worse person than she actually was in real life -- but this flick managed to accomplish that almost seemingly-impossible task.As I watched, I still expected that there might be some indication towards the very end of his duplicity, and at least a modicum of responsibility on his shoulders for her entering his home and shooting his wife point-blank in her face. But there was not even at least some oblique reference on this point.The scenes between Buttafuoco and the local pair of policemen even made it appear that they should show more feeling for him and have greater understanding than was displayed. And his watching television with wife, father and son, as a tape displayed by a lover of hers was exposing her slutty side, could have been the Cleavers, say, watching a broadcast, exonerating Wally or Beaver from some local minor mischief which might have been suspected.,Hard to feel any sympathy whatever for these folks, except the lady shot point-blank, and Pop, with his lifelong business placed in jeopardy.The two or three times I've seen the real Joey on the tube, even a long time following these events, completely confirmed: this guy is a homely, cocky, smarmy asshole, the opposite of the portrayal by the actor in this flick, on all counts.

This movie is nothing but a cheesy waste of time garbage cartoon. It had nothing noteworthy in it. Bad acting, bad costumes, bad directing, nonsense script, cheap production, and too much of a lie.This movie tells a ton of lies about what happened. This movie is a total fictional lie about this case. Amy's version is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The Buttafuoco's except for Mary Jo all lie, lie, lie. I give this movie no stars at all. What a waste of time and money. Sorry mom.Next time I'm gonna choose a better movie. In the end all I can say to the director is, make better quality films if you want people to watch them. I think it's time to make a movie out of Amy's book If I Knew Then.

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.

A depressing tale of a middle-aged man and teen-aged girl who have an affair, presumably, after which the girl shoots the guy's wife in the head, so that the girl and the guy can get married, or at least live together, happily ever after. It's based on the real events surrounding Aimee Fisher and Joey Buttafuco. She's played my Alyssa Milano, in probably her most demanding role, and the car mechanic is Jack Scalia. What a tawdry tale. A narcissistic pedophile and a spoiled pretty nymphomaniac. Lots of sex, intrigue, conflict, some violence, all rather disgusting, which is probably why three independent TV made-for movies about the case hit the TV screens at the same time. This one is definitely from Butaffuco's point of view. The poor guy loves his wife and children (sob) and never touches this succulent nymphet. Fisher is plumply overdeveloped, more than simply enticing, bursting her seams, and she's the aggressor and the liar in the tale. Buttafuco is the innocent victim. Right. No ex coke addicted, pumped up, self-admiring Italian philanderer would dream of laying a paw on this fawning young creature. Man, is he put upon. Our eyes water at the narrative. Aimee lies to her family and tells them that Joey gave her herpes. Then tries to murder his wife. And all this time he's nothing more than a cheerful, loving, family man and upright citizen, aghast at all the terrible things he's accused of. Did he fund this movie? The other two made-fors took quite different points of view, depending on who was backing the production and which particular participant in this disgusting tale was doing the endoresements. Utterly revolting garbage, which the public ate up. Alyssa Milano is a beautiful young woman. Anyone who wants to see her en deshabille should rent "Kiss of the Vampire" or whatever it was, far sexier, and less repugnant simply because it is more mindless. This movie actually has a point of view. It could have skipped the sleazy plot and just shown us Joey pumping iron in a gym and Aimee coupling in some stranger's back seat. An insult to the public viewer, who gobbled it down with relish.