

The Featherweight
Willie Pep has had 231 fights. What's one more?
5.99 votes on TMDB2023Movie1h 39m
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
Guglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)

Ruby Wolf
Linda Papaleo

Keir Gilchrist
Billy Papaleo Jr.

Stephen Lang
Bill Gore

Ron Livingston
Bob Kaplan

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Sandy Saddler

Shari Albert
Fran Papaleo

Imma Aiello
Mama Papaleo

Frank John Hughes
Mike Marino

Michael Siberry
Bill Lee

Jeremy Luke
Rocky Marciano

Bruce Carrington
Goose
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