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  1. Sep 20, 2024 · The Featherweight” elevates its been-there story of middle-aged guys chasing their glory days with some smart, unexpected performances and a genuinely intriguing aesthetic frame. It might not deliver a total knock-out punch, but it gets a few good blows in before the bell rings.

  2. Oct 2, 2024 · The Featherweight is first and foremost a novel outing for its unique choice of perspective regarding the life of one of the best defensive boxers of all time, a focus on the man more than the...

    • Robert Kolodny
    • James Madio
  3. 99 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Box office. $22,011 [1][2] 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. [3] It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2023.

  4. Sep 20, 2023 · The post-salad days of real-life Connecticut boxer Willie Pep are dramatized with impressive vérité verisimilitude in Robert Kolodny's Venice-premiered debut feature.

    • Guy Lodge
  5. Sep 26, 2024 · Drama. Sports. Action. 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...

    • James Madio
    • Robert Kolodny
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  6. 81% Tomatometer 16 Reviews. Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings. NEW. Set in the mid-1960s in Hartford, Connecticut, The Featherweight presents a gripping chapter in the true-life story of Italian...

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    • Biography, Drama, Sports
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  8. Sep 19, 2024 · In this biopic, a documentary crew follows the boxer Willie Pep during his 1960s comeback. The movie, directed by Robert Kolodny, opens in 1964, two decades after the boxer Willie Pep, played by ...

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