The Featherweight (2023)

5.1/10 99 min Drama

Overview

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.

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

Louis Vanaria

Event Organizer

Patrick Murney

Don Dunphy

Gino Cafarelli

Harry Balogh

Delano Montgomery

Sam Hornsby

Jay Giannone

Gerard

Tony Bonsignore

Tony

David Gere

Television Director

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