Made for television in 1993, and starring Drew Barrymore during her "bad girl" period, The Amy Fisher Story is arguably the best of the film adaptations made about the Long Island Lolita. Any film would have its hands full trying to depict the chaotic chain of events and tangled plot of the infamous shooting, so rather than refine any single viewpoint, the story unfolds with a Rashomon-like quality, depicting the tale of the assault in a series of flashbacks. Sometimes this leads to flashbacks within flashbacks, and even flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks, but don't worry, we've got ominous musical cues and grainy 16mm black-and- white stock to help us keep the story straight, which is more than we had at the time.

The movie does take a critical look at the television and print tabloids and their roles in the inflation of this event. It awkwardly, perhaps a little self-consciously, depicts the escalating and infringing influence of the media until it is impossible to extricate the reporters from the reported. Ultimately the "detached" press finds itself posting portions of Amy's bail, recording Joey's defense on live shock radio, encouraging those closest to the players to record supposedly intimate conversations, and then cheerfully reporting the ensuing pandemonium with a tsk-tsk aside and a sly wink. Couple all this with the wonderfully studied performance of Drew Barrymore, whose dialect and mannerisms are spot-on Amy, and the smarmy performance of Anthony John Denison as Joey Buttafuoco (you can actually smell the WD40) and you get a fun 90-minute movie

Drew Barrymore stars as the notorious "Long Island Lolita" in this tale of obsessive love, sex, assault, and attempted suicide surrounding one of the most sensational crime cases in history. Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Marvin Goodman likened Amy Fisher to a "walking stick of dynamite with a fuse lit." This is her explosive story.

Amy Fisher, a rebellious teenager from a home where objects like cars and clothes replaced love, quickly learned to trade her sexuality for profit. By the time she turned 16, she was big trouble waiting to happen. When Amy's father introduced her to his auto mechanic, Joey Buttafuoco, she fell hard for the rugged man. After several steamy sexual encounters, she became obsessed. But when Joey refused to leave his wife, Amy decided to get her way with a little help from a gun.