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The Featherweight

The Featherweight

5.1 (8) ·2023 ·99 min ·Movie
Drama

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.

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James Madio
James Madio
Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)
Ruby Wolf
Ruby Wolf
Linda Papaleo
Keir Gilchrist
Keir Gilchrist
Billy Papaleo Jr.
Stephen Lang
Stephen Lang
Bill Gore
Ron Livingston
Ron Livingston
Bob Kaplan
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Sandy Saddler
Shari Albert
Shari Albert
Fran Papaleo
Imma Aiello
Imma Aiello
Mama Papaleo
Frank John Hughes
Frank John Hughes
Mike Marino
Michael Siberry
Michael Siberry
Bill Lee

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