Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
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.
- Date of release
- 1988-11-11
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Paul Morrissey
Casting
- Sasha Mitchell — Spike Fumo
- Ernest Borgnine — Baldo Cacetti
- Anne DeSalvo — Sylvia Cacetti
- Sylvia Miles — Congresswoman
- Geraldine Smith — Helen Fumo
- Antonia Rey — Bandana's Mother
- Rick Aviles — Bandana
- Maria Pitillo — Angel
- Karen Shallo — Blondie
- Christopher Anthony Young — Carmine
- Mario Todisco — Tortorella
- Rodney Harvey — Frankie
Interesting facts
Spike of Bensonhurst is a 1988 American comedy drama mafia film written and directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Sasha Mitchell. The film also features Ernest Borgnine, Maria Pitillo, and Talisa Soto. It was released in the United States on November 11, 1988 after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the United Kingdom and other countries, the film was released with the title Mafia Kid.
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