Spike of Bensonhurst

Name: Spike of Bensonhurst
Director: Paul Morrissey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1988-11-11
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 5.417
Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne DeSalvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith

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

1988

1h 40m

Comedy Drama

Director: Paul Morrissey

Writers: Paul Morrissey, Alan Bowne

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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.