Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
One kid's fight for the respect of the neighborhood.
100 min
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.
- Release date
- November 11, 1988
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Coati Mundi
Trailer
Cast
- Sasha Mitchell as Spike Fumo
- Ernest Borgnine as Baldo Cacetti
- Anne DeSalvo as Sylvia Cacetti
- Sylvia Miles as Congresswoman
- Geraldine Smith as Helen Fumo
- Antonia Rey as Bandanas Mother
- Rick Aviles as Bandana
- Maria Pitillo as Angel
- Karen Shallo as Blondie
- Christopher Anthony Young as Carmine
Crew
- Paul Morrissey · Director
- Alan Bowne · Writer
- Paul Morrissey · Writer
- Nelson Lyon · Producer
- David Weisman · Producer
- Coati Mundi · Composer
- Steven Fierberg · Cinematographer
- Stan Salfas · Editor
- Leonard Finger · Casting director
- Stephen McCabe · Production designer