The Featherweight
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Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?

5.1(8 votes)
2023
1h 39m
Drama

Overview

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

Trailer

Cast

James Madio

James Madio

Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)

Ruby Wolf

Ruby Wolf

Linda Papaleo

Keir Gilchrist

Keir Gilchrist

Billy Papaleo Jr.

Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang

Bill Gore

Ron Livingston

Ron Livingston

Bob Kaplan

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Sandy Saddler

Shari Albert

Shari Albert

Fran Papaleo

Imma Aiello

Imma Aiello

Mama Papaleo

Frank John Hughes

Frank John Hughes

Mike Marino

Michael Siberry

Michael Siberry

Bill Lee

Directed by

Robert Kolodny

Robert Kolodny

Written by

Steve Loff

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