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Oct 1, 2023 · With James Madio, Ruby Wolf, Keir Gilchrist, Stephen Lang. 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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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Robert Kolodny
- 2023-10-01
The Featherweight is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film directed by Robert Kolodny, written by Steve Loff, and starring James Madio as professional boxer Willie Pep. It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2023.
Sep 20, 2023 · The post-salad days of Connecticut boxer Willie Pep are dramatized with impressive verisimilitude in Robert Kolodny's debut 'The Featherweight.'
- Guy Lodge
The Featherweight is a documentary film that follows the comeback of Willie Pep, the winningest fighter of all time, in the mid-1960s. The film explores his personal and professional struggles, his legacy and his relationship with the media.
Sep 3, 2023 · The Featherweight is a fictionalized account of the real-life two-time featherweight champion’s attempts to get back in the ring. The Italian-American fighter, who died in 2006 at the age...
- Lovia Gyarkye
Set in the mid-1960s, The Featherweight presents a gripping chapter in the true-life story of Italian-American boxer Willie Pep—the winningest fighter of all time—who, down and out in his mid-40s and with his personal life in shambles, decides to make a return to the ring, at which point a documentary camera crew enters his life.
Sep 3, 2023 · Ringside drama "The Featherweight" [review] uses a faux documentary format with James Madio playing boxer Willie Pep, who made a comeback at 42.
