The Featherweight

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2023 · 99 min · Drama · TMDB 5.1/10

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.

Directed by Robert Kolodny

Cast

• James Madio — Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)
• Ruby Wolf — Linda Papaleo
• Keir Gilchrist — Billy Papaleo Jr.
• Stephen Lang — Bill Gore
• Ron Livingston — Bob Kaplan