Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)

  • NR
  • 11/11/1988 (US)
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 1h 40m

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

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.

Paul Morrissey

Director, Screenplay, Story

Alan Bowne

Screenplay

Cast

Sasha Mitchell's headshot

Sasha Mitchell

Spike Fumo
Ernest Borgnine's headshot

Ernest Borgnine

Baldo Cacetti
Anne DeSalvo's headshot

Anne DeSalvo

Sylvia Cacetti
Sylvia Miles's headshot

Sylvia Miles

Congresswoman
Geraldine Smith's headshot

Geraldine Smith

Helen Fumo
Antonia Rey's headshot

Antonia Rey

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Rick Aviles's headshot

Rick Aviles

Bandana
Maria Pitillo's headshot

Maria Pitillo

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