The Featherweight
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.
2023-09-03
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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
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