Film
Spike of Bensonhurst
United States- Director
- Paul Morrissey
- Year
- 1988
One kid's fight for the respect of the neighborhood.
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.
Top cast
Sasha Mitchell
Spike Fumo
Ernest Borgnine
Baldo Cacetti
Anne DeSalvo
Sylvia Cacetti
Sylvia Miles
Congresswoman
Geraldine Smith
Helen Fumo
Antonia Rey
Bandana's Mother
Rick Aviles
Bandana
Maria Pitillo
Angel
Karen Shallo
Blondie
Christopher Anthony Young
Carmine
Mario Todisco
Tortorella
Rodney Harvey
Frankie
Talisa Soto
India
Frank Adonis
Vinaca
Frank Gio
Pete Fumo
Robert Compono
Chicago Boxer
Tony Goodstone
Mafia Boss
Justin Lazard
Justin
Directed by
Paul Morrissey
Written by
Paul Morrissey, Alan Bowne
Produced by
David Weisman, Nelson Lyon