The Featherweight (2023)
Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?
99 min
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.
- Release date
- September 3, 2023
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- James Madio as Willie Pep
- Ruby Wolf as Linda Papaleo
- Keir Gilchrist as Billy Papaleo Jr.
- Stephen Lang as Bill Gore
- Ron Livingston as Bob Kaplan
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Sandy Saddler
- Shari Albert as Fran Papaleo
- Frank John Hughes as Mike Marino
- Imma Aiello as Mama Papaleo
- Michael Siberry as Bill Lee
Crew
- Robert Kolodny · Director
- Steve Loff · Writer
- Bennett Elliott · Producer
- Robert Greene · Producer
- Asger Hussain · Producer
- Steve Loff · Producer
- Retail Space · Composer
- Adam Kolodny · Cinematographer
- Robert Greene · Editor
- Kimberly Graham · Casting director
- Sonia Foltarz · Production designer