Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)

He’s a wild, irresponsible two-timing wiseguy from Brooklyn. But you gotta love him.

Spike Fumo (Sasha Mitchell, TV's Step by Step) doesn't want to end up a loser like his dad, who's taking a rap in Sing Sing for local mob boss Baldo Cacetti (Ernest Borgnine, Marty). The tough, handsome kid aspires to boxing glory, but he's willing to throw a fight when he has to. Cacetti has fatherly affection for Spike until the boxer hooks up with Angel (Maria Pitillo, True Romance), the don's feisty blonde princess of a daughter. When Spike and Angel won't break up, Spike is banished from Bensonhurst and he moves in with a Puerto Rican boxer (Rick Aviles, Ghost) and his beautiful sister (Talisa Soto, Licence to Kill) in Red Hook. Soon Spike is a father-to-be in each neighborhood, and heading for a fall with the don. It's time for Bensonhurst's most unlikely hero to make the slickest career move of his life. 

Cult New York filmmaker Paul Morrissey’s (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Dracula) satiric comedy is a wise and very funny sendup of Brooklyn mafia community relations in the 1980s. Charismatic screen newcomer and top fashion model Mitchell effectively shares the screen with veterans Borgnine, Anne De Salvo (Stardust Memories), Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy) and Antonia Rey (To Find a Man), while evoking Morrissey's legendary 1960s Adonis, Joe Dallesandro.  Newly-restored from its original 35mm camera negative, Spike of Bensonhurst makes its worldwide debut on 4K UHD and Blu-ray.

Directed by: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne De Salvo, Talisa Soto, Maria Pitillo
1988 / 101 min / 1.85 / English Monaural