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.

• Type
  movie
• Release Date
  Sep 3, 2023
• Country
  • United States of America
• Language
  • English
• Genre
  • Drama
  • Biography
  • Sport
• Cast
  • James Madio as Guglielmo Papaleo (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
  • Imma Aiello as Mama Papaleo
  • Frank John Hughes as Mike Marino
  • Michael Siberry as Bill Lee
  • Jeremy Luke as Rocky Marciano
  • Bruce Carrington as Goose
  • David Lavine as Karl Rierson
  • Louis Vanaria as Event Organizer
  • Patrick Murney as Don Dunphy
  • Gino Cafarelli as Harry Balogh
  • Delano Montgomery as Sam Hornsby
  • Jay Giannone as Gerard
  • Tony Bonsignore as Tony
  • David Gere as Television Director
  • Gordon Silva as Salvatore Papaleo
  • Kevin Daigneault as Doctor
  • Kent R. Williams as Curly
• References
  • website
  • imdb