The Featherweight (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.
- Date of release
- 2023-09-03
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Robert Kolodny
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Hartford
The Featherweight is a 2024 American biographical sports drama film directed by Robert Kolodny, written by Steve Loff, and starring James Madio as professional boxer Willie Pep. It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
Production
Filming occurred in Hartford, Connecticut in late 2021, utilizing real locations from Willie Pep's life. Kolodny cast both professional actors and locals to heighten the nonfiction aesthetic of the film. Aside from Robert Kolodny, who spent the years as a documentary cinematographer on films like Procession and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the team behind the film involved several celebrated filmmakers from the documentary community, includi…
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