Mafia Kid
1988, 101 minutes, Rated M
"Such a good boy. Such a rotten family."
Nothing's sacred when Ernest Borgnine and Sasha Mitchell ("Death Before Dishonor") bash heads in this Mafia spoof action-comedy. The setting is the infamous Bensonhurst neighbourhood in contemporary Brooklyn, New York. The Mafia still controls the neighbourhood the way it did in the old days, but the game has changed. This is the modern Mafia.
Ernest Borgnine plays Baldo Cacetti, the tough talking, but softhearted local Godfather who runs Bensonhurst from the cozy little Garibaldi Social Club. Sasha Mitchell plays a hard case Sicilian kid, SPIKE FUMO, who dreams of being a middleweight boxing champion. Spike is a throwback to the days when being tough and Italian was all it took to make it in the Bensonhurst ghetto.
Spike wants Mr. Cacetti to back him so he can get a shot at a title fight. But Cacetti considers the boxing game too lowlife and would prefer to make his money in something less risky—like the drug trade. At Spike's next fight he encounters ANGEL, Cacetti's daughter. Not wasting any time, Spike with all his thickheaded charm, asks Angel out. Their unlikely romance is off with a bang! This, Cacetti does not like. He bans Spike from ever seeing his daughter again.
Spike flees to Red-Hook where he and Angel conspire to win over her father with a brilliant plan. If Spike gets her pregnant, Cacetti will have to let Spike back into the fold. Cacetti concocts a scheme to take Spike out of the action once and for all. With the Wisdom of Solomon, Cacetti arranges a promising new career for Spike. One not even Spike would have thought possible.
- Director:
- Paul Morrissey [8],
- Starring:
- Ernest Borgnine [60], Sasha Mitchell [7],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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