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Spike of Bensonhurst (VHS, 1989) 
Spike of Bensonhurst (VHS, 1989)

 
Spike of Bensonhurst (VHS, 1989)

Leading Role: Sasha Mitchell
Director: Paul Morrissey
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Jan 1989
Format: VHS
UPC: 020897009436
Product ID: EPID3130733
Description: Former Andy Warhol film accomplice Paul Morrissey takes a stab at the Mafia genre with the comedy SPIKE OF BENSONHURST. Spike Fumo is a local Italian thug, trying to make something of himself in the tough and tight-knit Italian neighborh...
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Movie Description
Former Andy Warhol film accomplice Paul Morrissey takes a stab at the Mafia genre with the comedy SPIKE OF BENSONHURST. Spike Fumo is a local Italian thug, trying to make something of himself in the tough and tight-knit Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst. After realizing that fixed fights in a run-down boxing ring are getting him nowhere; Spike conspires to ingratiate himself with the local don, Baldo Caccetti (Ernest Borgnine). When Spike tries to woo Baldo's precious daughter Angel, his rise to the top is abruptly put on hold. Consequently, Spike is kicked out of his house by his foulmouthed lesbian mother (played by Morrissey favorite Geraldine Smith) and moves to Red Hook to live with the Puerto Rican family of a fellow boxer, Bandana. When spike falls for Bandana's sister, India, he finds himself stuck between two worlds and two neighborhoods, with a menacing pregnant girl on each side. Morrissey's deadpan humor and thinly disguised critique of corrupt modern society plays out entertainingly in this idiosyncratic yet conventionally contrived narrative. As in his previous films, Spike's magnetic personality and overflowing personality forge a vibrant center around which the action of the neighborhood and thus the film vibrates.

Credits
Producer:David Weisman
Cast:Antonia Rey, Ernest Borgnine, Geraldine Smith, Karen Shallo, Rick Aviles

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound

Editorial Reviews
"...SPIKE OF BENSONHURST is gratifying in its corrosive yet oddly sunny cynicism....[With] a roster of rousing performances. Newcomer Mitchell is a breezy charmer; Borgnine is fresh and canny in a jewel of a portrayal..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (11/11/1988)

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