ComedyDrama
Spike of Bensonhurst
“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.
Directed by Paul Morrissey, Sam Grogg
54
User score
12 votes
Status
Released
Released
November 11, 1988
Runtime
1h 40m
Language
English, Italian
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
Carol Jean Lewis
1st Junkie
Tommy Citera
2nd Junkie
