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Casualties of Love [VHS]

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If you were as intrigued by the Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuocco scandal as I was then you will love this movie. There were three t.v. movies based on it and this one is based on the Buttafuocco's story. This may not have been the best one but it had the best Amy. Alyssa Milano(Charmed,Who's the Boss) is wonderful as Amy. Sexy,manipulative,and crazy. Alyssa is very convincing right down to the New York accent. She makes you like Amy yet hate her at the same time. I wish however the movie had more of Amy's side of view. It made Amy out to be the bad girl and Joey seem like he had no interest in Amy at all. We all know now this is not the case. Jack Scalia is very good as Joey but I find it very hard to believe that Joey was the good guy in this. We all know Joey is an unattractive,loudmouth, imbecil and Jack Scalia comes off as Intelligent and caring. I liked the Joey portayed in this movie. Too bad it's all false. Phylis Lyons is amazing as Mary Jo. I really cared about her and felt sorry for her. The pain and agony is clearly evident in her performance. She also comes off as a very strong woman who is not going to take any crap from her husband. This is a very well acted film that even though the facts aren't straight(at the time everyone thought they were, we discovered the truth years after this film was made) is very compeeling and is worth seeing Alyssa Milano give a marvelous performance.

This turkey shows up often on the wifetime channel, so there's no reason to plunk down over a hundred bucks for it. Plus, since the only edition is on VHS tape, you can't even do the close-up slo-mo on it. I think the big deal is about this scene, about ten minutes into the movie; Joey is in a lube pit in his garage, checking out Amy's (Alyssa Milano) undercarriage, if you catch my drift. She's yammering on about something, and then from Joey's perspective, looking up from out of the pit, she approaches... and you notice that the wardrobe department failed to supply Ms. Milano with undergarments, and that her skintight spandex pants seem to be trying to split her in two. (!) That's the big deal about this one. The rest of it is pure, unadulterated hogwash, portrayed with some of the most laughable excuses for "acting" ever put on film. Really awful stuff, especially because it's from Joey's perspective, which has since been proven to be a complete fabrication. The upshot is that if it weren't for that one scene, and the fact that it involved an actress who later became famous, this waste of mylar would be going for 25 cents at Goodwill instead of a hundred bucks on Amazon. There ya go.

I love both actors in this movie . The movie was done great . I truly enjoyed watching the both anctors working
so well together. I can never get tired of it.


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