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400:'s shop, to get it fixed. She flirts with Joey lightly, asking him a lot of questions about his personal life. She begins crashing her car on purpose, using it as an excuse to see Joey again. Eventually, the two begin an affair. He is in his mid-thirties, while she's in her teens (a minor). Amy becomes increasingly desperate about her relationship with Joey. She has strong feelings for him, and even though she knows he is married to his high school sweetheart, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, she constantly wants to spend time with him. When he refuses to leave Mary Jo, Amy decides to hire someone to kill her. All her potential accomplices prove unwilling to get the job done, so Amy eventually decides to kill Mary Jo, herself. 24: 135: 403:
Amy goes to the Buttafuoco house and tells Mary Jo that Joey was cheating on her with Amy's younger sister. When Mary Jo expresses disbelief, Amy shows her the T-shirt that Joey gave her, but Mary Jo still doesn't believe Amy, saying that Joey gave that shirt to a lot of his customers. As Mary Jo is
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In 1991, Amy's parents bought her a brand new car, for her sixteenth birthday. Amy loves the car, but her parents don't want her to take advantage, by using it whenever she wants. After an argument with her parents, Amy spends her birthday at a friend's house. She had previously gone to a restaurant
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with them, and her father didn't like the fact that she was wearing such a revealing outfit (to keep the peace, Amy's mother told her outfit was lovely). She also flirted with the waiter, by looking at him with the corner of her eye, with a seductive smile on her face.
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Joey realizes it was Amy who shot his wife. Mary Jo confirms this, in a lineup. The reports of the shooting spread through the media, and Amy is given the nickname "Long Island Lolita".
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about to close the door on Amy, she takes out her gun and shoots Mary Jo in the head. The shot doesn't kill Mary Jo, but it leaves her face partially paralyzed for life.
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dismissed the film, calling it "meandering" and criticizing reviewers for hailing it as the best of the three films that were made about Amy Fisher.
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Eventually, in late 1992, Amy is sentenced to five to fifteen years in jail. Joey Buttafuoco is convicted of
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lies in a hospital bed, with her mother sitting by her bedside. Earlier, she had attempted to commit
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for CBS. The ABC film garnered higher TV ratings and critical praise than the CBS version.
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Amy gets into an accident, crashing her car. Her father takes her to
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and originally aired on that network; in 1993, it was released on
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portrayed Joey Buttafuoco. It aired the same night and time as
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for shooting Buttafuoco's wife. The film was produced by
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