The Featherweight
The Featherweight
Release: 2023-09-03
·Runtime: 99m
·★ 5.1
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Appian Way
Golden Ratio Films
Pep Films
Blisspoint Entertainment
Connecticut Public Television
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Gino Cafarelli
as Harry Balogh
Gordon Silva
as Salvatore Papaleo
Shari Albert
as Fran Papaleo
Jeremy Luke
as Rocky Marciano
David Lavine
as Karl Rierson
Tony Bonsignore
as Tony
Ruby Wolf
as Linda Papaleo
Stephen Lang
as Bill Gore
Louis Vanaria
as Event Organizer
Patrick Murney
as Don Dunphy
Jay Giannone
as Gerard
James Madio
as Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)
Keir Gilchrist
as Billy Papaleo Jr.
Frank John Hughes
as Mike Marino
Delano Montgomery
as Sam Hornsby
David Gere
as Television Director
Ron Livingston
as Bob Kaplan
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
as Sandy Saddler
Imma Aiello
as Mama Papaleo
Michael Siberry
as Bill Lee
Bruce Carrington
as Goose
