Spike of Bensonhurst

Comedy, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Paul Morrissey

Status Released

Release Date 1988-11-11

Storyline

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.

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