The Featherweight (2023)
Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?
2023 · 1h 39m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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.
Director: Robert Kolodny
Writers: Steve Loff
Music by: Retail Space
Cinematography: Adam Kolodny
Editor: Robert Greene
Cast
James Madio as Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)Ruby Wolf as Linda PapaleoKeir Gilchrist as Billy Papaleo Jr.Stephen Lang as Bill GoreRon Livingston as Bob KaplanLawrence Gilliard Jr. as Sandy SaddlerShari Albert as Fran PapaleoImma Aiello as Mama PapaleoFrank John Hughes as Mike MarinoMichael Siberry as Bill LeeJeremy Luke as Rocky MarcianoBruce Carrington as GooseMore like this
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