Main Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne de Salvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith
Release Year: 1988
Country: US
Run Time: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this comedy drama, Spike Fumo (Sasha Mitchell) is a Brooklyn streetfighter with pugilistic aspirations. With Spike's mafioso father in Sing Sing, mobster and former fighter Baldo Cacetti (Ernest Borgnine) looks out for Spike by getting him some bouts and every once in a while convincing the fighter to throw a match. When Spike meets and falls for Baldo's daughter Angel (Maria Patillo), Baldo suddenly sours on Spike. The father wants Angel to marry the college-bound son of a cocaine-snorting congresswoman (Sylvia Miles), and Baldo only envisions Spikes' future as being a mob enforcer. Eventually, Spike moves away from his embittered lesbian mother (Geraldine Smith) and moves in with the Puerto Rican boxer Bandana (Rick Aviles). He soon has two women pregnant in two different neighborhoods as he contemplates his future. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Antonia Rey - Bandana's Mother; Rick Aviles - Bandana; Maria Pitillo - Angel; Talisa Soto - India; Christopher Anthony Young; Mario Todisco - Tortorella; Rodney Harvey - Frankie; Frank Adonis - Vinaca; Frank Gio - Pete Fumo; Robert Compono - Chicago Boxer; Tony Goodstone - Mafia Boss; Justin Lazard - Justin; Gene Amoroso - Booth Guard; Steve Baker - Dealer; Ida Bemardini - Grandmother; Anthony Bishop - Video Boss; John Capodice - Mafia Eater; Angel David - Teen Dealer; Robert Ditillio - Convict Kissing Girlfriend; Paul Dillon - 1st Cop; Ray Iannicelli - Photographer; Carol Jean Lewis - 1st Junkie; Arline Miyazaki - Cashier; Ralph Monaco - Mafia Man; Larry Ramos - Referee; Karen Shallo - Blondie; Michael Turney - Bar Mitzvah Boy; Sal Viviano - Singer; Fabio Urena - Gang Member; Tony La Fortezza - Mafia Stooge; Mary Lou Rosato - Italian Mother; Nancy Gianzero - Tracy
Credit
Leonard Finger - Casting, Nelson Lyon - Co-producer, Mark Silverman - Co-producer, David Weisman - Co-producer, Barbara Dente - Costume Designer, Paul Morrissey - Director, Stan Salfas - Editor, Sam Grogg - Executive Producer, Coati Mundi - Composer (Music Score), Stephen McCabe - Production Designer, Steven Fierberg - Cinematographer, Alan Browne - Screenwriter, Paul Morrissey - Screenwriter
In the film, the protagonist, Spike Fumo, is a young Italian man who lives in Brooklyn and aspires to be a boxer. However, he falls in love with a girl who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. As he is forced to leave, he moves to a Puerto Rican section of New York City, where he falls in love with a girl from that neighborhood, as well.
