Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)

Name: Spike of Bensonhurst
Director: Paul Morrissey
Released: 1988-11-11
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne DeSalvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith

ComedyDrama

100 min

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

Plot Summary

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.