Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

1993
5| 1h35m| PG-13| en
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Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.

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BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
evening1 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.
Horrorible_Horror_Films 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!
robdreilly 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.
caa821 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.