Sep 03, 2023
99 min
Full-HD

The Featherweight (2023)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

United States of America

Companies

Appian Way Golden Ratio Films Pep Films Blisspoint Entertainment Connecticut Public Television

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

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