Spike of Bensonhurst

Spike of Bensonhurst

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

1988 · 100 min · ★ 5.4 · Comedy, Drama

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 · Written by Paul Morrissey

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