Product Details

• Actors: Anna Levine, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace, Bill Dawes
• Directors: Amos Kollek
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005O0SY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,465 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Fiona" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Fiona lives a wild and reckless life outside the law. Abandoned on a New York city street by her mother as a baby, she survived a foster home with an abusive father to become a crack-smoking prostitute. Fiona kills three cops with the same nonchalance with which she seduces and gets seduced, then takes refuge in a neighborhood crackhouse. She meets Anita, a prostitute ravaged and exhausted by life and the two becomes friends - only to realize they are in fact mother and daughter. Gritty and unsparing, the film blends an original screenplay with actual documentary footage shot in a lower east side crackhouse, with real prostitutes playing some of the key roles. The film focuses on the relationships without descending into voyeurism or pity. Going beyond the graphics of sex and seduction, to convey authenticity that transcends the line between reality and fiction.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This movie is the anti-Pretty Woman...it's reality, October 18, 2003

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Anais Nin "Zepora" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiona (DVD)

This film is about as gutwrenchingly real and gritty as you can get. This is NOT Pretty Woman, this is what the life of a prostitute is really like, no glamor, no fluff, no Richard Gere. Fiona's story, and those of her friends and her mother, is the story of too many women and children in our society, and unless you have no soul, this is very hard viewing. I watched this movie on late night television yesterday and the reviewer gave it one star. Well, I guess some people can't relate to the truth...

The "actors" in this film appear to be "real" people from the streets. Their honesty in portraying what their world is like can only be commended. Kudos to each and every one of them and to the director as well for having the guts to do this film. The movie has a documentary feel, in the sense that you can hear the camera whirring in the background, there is no dramatic sound track, no fake moaning when one of the prostitutes has to perform a sexual act. The danger and the disempowerment these women must deal with, their heartbreaking search for love, and the disillusionment and sense of hopelessness they face are all powerfully portrayed, as is their underlying rage. So, why, you may ask, would you want to watch such a depressing movie? Because maybe it will give you a little more insight, a little more compassion, and perhaps help you to understand that fellow human being you walk past on the street. I especially recommend this film to men who frequent prostitutes...if you think they're having fun or that they are not "a person", think again...

I highly recommend this movie for the brave of heart.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WIERD MOVIE - but strangely good., February 9, 2002

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sarah (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiona [VHS] (VHS Tape)

if you want to see a semi softcore porn involving Fiona- who was abandoned by her prostitute mother, only to be mollested throughout her childhood in foster care, and eventualy becomes a crack smoking, heroine shooting, sometimes lesbian, prostitute, (who eventualy almost has sex with her mother when they unknowingly reunite the day before she jumps off a building later in life..) its a movie for you. it was actualy VERY true to real life. I dont think most of the people were actors, it looks like they got them off the street. very realistic film. just..... wierd. but a good wierd! oh yeah-its also like as low budget as they come. but that also makes it unique.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bad transfer, August 5, 2011

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M. Gay "olehippie" (Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fiona (DVD)

The transfer is very bad. The quality of the movie is very poor. Scenes end very abruptly & skip to the next scene. Scenes jump seconds ahead. Many scenes are edited right in the middle of the scene. The acting is very poor & the plot unbelievable.