Spike of Bensonhurst
“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.
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Sasha Mitchell
Spike Fumo
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Sylvia Miles
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Maria Pitillo
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Karen Shallo
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Paul Morrissey Director · Alan Bowne Screenplay Coati Mundi Composer
Worldwide gross $623K · United States release November 11, 1988 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$623,112
Production
FilmDallas Pictures
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
United States · November 11, 1988
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