There was a TV movie made about the Tonya & Nancy incident. What was it called?
“Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story” was a hastily assembled made-for-TV movie designed to cash in on interest surrounding the scandal. It premiered on the US NBC network on April 29th 1994 and starred Alexandra Powers (of “LA Law”) as Tonya and Heather Langenkamp as Nancy (who, ironically, was best known for playing another character called Nancy in the “Nightmare On Elm Street” films). In spite of its title it was based almost entirely on public-domain sources such as police reports and newspaper articles, not on any special inside exclusives (though Tonya’s former coach, Dody Teachman, is credited as “technical adviser”). A full cast listing can be found at The Internet Movie Database, and a review was published in the June 4, 1999 issue of “The Portlandian”. It does not appear to be available on video. Fox was also working on it’s own TV movie about the incident but dumped the idea when it became apparent that there would be no trial. Another proposal for a film to be entitled “Tonya
