The Featherweight (2023)
"Willie Pep has had 21 fights. What's one more?"
Title: The Featherweight
Original Title: The Featherweight
Release Date: 2023-09-03
Status: Released
Rating: 5.1/10 (from 8 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Appian Way, Golden Ratio Films, Pep Films, Blisspoint Entertainment, Connecticut Public Television
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.
Cast
James Madio
Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)
Ruby Wolf
Linda Papaleo
Keir Gilchrist
Billy Papaleo Jr.
Stephen Lang
Bill Gore
Ron Livingston
Bob Kaplan
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Sandy Saddler
Shari Albert
Fran Papaleo
Imma Aiello
Mama Papaleo
Frank John Hughes
Mike Marino
Michael Siberry
Bill Lee
