Spike of Bensonhurst

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (309 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Morrissey

Genres:

Comedy Drama

Cast:

Sasha Mitchell Ernest Borgnine Anne De Salvo Sylvia Miles

Writer:

Alan Bowne (additional dialogue)

Paul Morrissey (story)

Fullplot:

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.

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