USA UP ALL NIGHT: Casualties of Love: The “Long Island Lolita” Story (1993)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Casualties of Love was on USA Up All Night on February 13, 1993; November 25 and December 3, 1994.

Of the three Amy Fisher movies, NBC’s Amy Fisher: My Story, ABC’s The Amy Fisher Story with Drew Barrymore, and this film, which aired on CBS on January 3, 1993 — the same night as ABC’s film — this is the only one featuring Lawrence Tierney.

Alyssa Milano is Amy, which is probably why this was on USA Up All Night so often.

Director and writer John Herzfeld also made numerous TV movies, including DaddyA Father’s RevengeThe Ryan White StoryThe Preppie Murder, and Remember, which features Donna Mills. He also produced several ABC Afterschool Specials2 Days in the ValleyDon King: Only in America, and the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John film Two of a Kind.

This one has a lot of Joey Buttafuoco (Jack Scalia), coked out and playing drums. And his brother is played by Bud, Leo Rossi! Man, did I cast this movie?

This one tells Joey’s side of the stor,y and the USA Network bought it while it was being filmed. Milano said,  “Our version was the one from Joey Buttafuoco’s point of view: That she was a lunatic. Since then, we’ve learned that his version wasn’t all true.”

You can watch this on Tubi.

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