The read
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes40%
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul MorrisseyDirector
- Alan BowneScreenplay
- Paul MorrisseyScreenplay
- Coati MundiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sasha MitchellSpike Fumo
- Ernest BorgnineBaldo Cacetti
- Anne DeSalvoSylvia Cacetti
- Sylvia MilesCongresswoman
- Geraldine SmithHelen Fumo
- Antonia ReyBandana's Mother
- Rick AvilesBandana
- Maria PitilloAngel
- Karen ShalloBlondie
- Christopher Anthony YoungCarmine
- Mario TodiscoTortorella
- Rodney HarveyFrankie