AMY FISHER: MY STORY
A film review by Ken Johnson
Copyright 1993 Ken Johnson
99 min., not rated, Drama, 1992, Made-for-television Director: Bradford May Cast: Noelle Parker, Ed Marinaro, Boyd Kestner, Pierrette Grace, Lawrence Dane, Kate Lynch, Kathleen Laskey
I am sure that everybody has heard the story by now, but will briefly go over it just in case somebody missed it. Long Island teenager Amy Fisher (Noelle Parker) met Joe Buttafucco (Ed Marinaro), who worked at an autobody shop. Fisher and Buttafucco started to have an affair with, in the end, will have Fisher attempting to kill Joe Buttafucco's wife so she can have Joe to herself.
AMY FISHER: MY STORY is the first of three television films that are being aired about the Amy Fisher story. AMY FISHER: MY STORY is told from the side of Amy Fisher. The film is supposedly based on facts as stated by Amy Fisher. How much of the film is fact and how much is fiction, I don't know, but the film makes good watching. This film was very well done and even if very little is actual fact, I enjoyed watching it. On a scale of zero to five, I give AMY FISHER: MY STORY a four.
After the Amy Fisher story became known in May of '92, three of the four major television networks rushed to film the story first. NBC won, with this film, the other two networks ABC, with BEYOND CONTROL: THE AMY FISHER STORY starring Drew Barrymore, and CBS, with CASUALTIES OF LOVE: THE 'LONG ISLAND LOLITA' STORY starring Alyssa Milano, will be airing theirs on the same night a week after NBC ran this film. I will attempt to view the other versions as well and do reviews on them.
The actors and actresses in the film do a good job. Noelle Parker (ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS, TWISTED) does an exceptionable job as Amy Fisher. As well as doing such a good job, Parker looks more like Amy Fisher than the other two actresses that have been picked. Her performance as Amy Fisher was completely convincing, and the backbone to the film. Ed Marinaro gives an outstanding performance as Joe Buttafucco. Even though his character is a complete sleaze, Marinaro's performance gives him some humanity.
The film seems rather well written. However, from what I have read in articles and heard on the news, Amy Fisher was not exactly as she was written. She evidently had more bad habits than the film showed, but the film might have been trying to be nice to her (it is giving her side of the story).
-------- Ken Johnson blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
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