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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

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.

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.