Metrograph

Morrissey’s loose, energetic, very sexy comedy has male ingénue Sasha Mitchell as Spike, a none too bright young Italian American prizefighter who’s run out of his neighborhood for chasing after the daughter of mafia boss Ernest Borgnine and taking up with the ravishing Talisa Soto in the Red Hook slums. A strutting, street-level snapshot of late ’80s New York set to the slinky beat of contemporary Italian pop tunes from the likes of Pupo and Ricchi e Poveri, its action taking us from Fortunato Brothers bakery to McCarren Park to the Borgnine character’s mob manor (actually in Ditmas Park), with a few stops along Manhattan Avenue for good measure.

Distributor: Fun City Editions

Introduction by writer Nick Pinkerton on Friday, September 5th