“One kid's fight for the respect of the neighborhood.”

Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)

Name: Spike of Bensonhurst
Director: Paul Morrissey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1988-11-11
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne DeSalvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith

November 11, 19881h 40mEN

5.4

12 votes

Comedy Drama

Overview

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.

Director

Paul Morrissey

Writers

Paul Morrissey, Paul Morrissey, Alan Bowne