Film
The Featherweight
United States- Director
- Robert Kolodny
- Year
- 2023
Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?
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.
Top 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
Jeremy Luke
Rocky Marciano
Bruce Carrington
Goose
David Lavine
Karl Rierson
Louis Vanaria
Event Organizer
Patrick Murney
Don Dunphy
Gino Cafarelli
Harry Balogh
Delano Montgomery
Sam Hornsby
Jay Giannone
Gerard
Directed by
Robert Kolodny
Written by
Steve Loff
Produced by
Steve Loff, James Madio, Brian Liebman, Asger Hussain