The Featherweight

Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?

Duration: 99 min

Release date: 2023-09-03

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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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as Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)

as Linda Papaleo

as Billy Papaleo Jr.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

as Sandy Saddler

as Fran Papaleo

as Mama Papaleo

Frank John Hughes

Frank John Hughes

Michael Siberry

Michael Siberry

as Rocky Marciano

Bruce Carrington

Bruce Carrington

as Karl Rierson

as Event Organizer

as Harry Balogh

Delano Montgomery

Delano Montgomery

Tony Bonsignore

Tony Bonsignore

as Television Director

as Salvatore Papaleo

Kevin Daigneault

Kevin Daigneault

Kent R. Williams

Kent R. Williams

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Production Designer

Naomi Wolff Lachter

Naomi Wolff Lachter

Costume Designer

Kimberly Graham

Kimberly Graham

Casting Director

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Erica Ensminger

Erica Ensminger

Key Makeup Artist

Bennett Elliott

Bennett Elliott

Co-Executive Producer

Makeup Department Head

Location Production Assistant

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