Spike of Bensonhurst

1988 • Directed by

Paul Morrissey

Comedy, Drama

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.