The Featherweight

2023

Biography / Drama / Sport

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 16 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 822 822

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Robert Kolodny Photo
Robert Kolodny

Top cast

Stephen Lang Photo
Stephen Lang as Bill Gore
Ron Livingston Photo
Ron Livingston as Bob Kaplan
James Madio Photo
James Madio as Willie Pep
Michael Siberry Photo
Michael Siberry as Bill Lee
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918.48 MB
1194*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 5
1.84 GB
1790*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by aubrydarminio 9 / 10

A must watch if you're interested in the Italian-American Experience

Think early, stripped-down Scorsese, before the big budgets (Ex. Italianamerican meets American Boy meets Mean Streets.) Shows the Italian-American experience, both the beautiful and the ugly bits, and just asks you to sit with it. This is not a flashy movie, if that's what you're looking for. It's a chronicle of a life.And that chronicle is well-acted. Ron Livingston and Stephen Lang stand out as the most recognizable faces. But James Madio brings a pep (pun intended) and vigor to Willie Pep's pain, keeping him likable, if never completely forgivable, yet always the guy you're rooting for. It's quite a feat.
Reviewed by ericenrightnyc 9 / 10

A refreshingly creative approach to the sports biopic

The Featherweight is a refreshingly creative approach to the sports biopic driven by the smoldering performances of leads Madio and Wolf.It's a tight script that knows when to breathe, and it comes with a well-drawn cast. I also enjoyed that the period accuracy wasn't built from obvious milestones, and instead existed only within the immediacy of Willie Pep's experience. In the end, the story lived in a moral grey area that was neither inspirational nor cautionary, and instead felt real.Overall I found it a very smooth and enjoyable watch, with enough levity to balance the pathos. It could probably lose a few minutes but it would be difficult to decide which scene to drop and there's not any real fat to cut.I hope this film gets the wide release it deserves.
Reviewed by georgekappad 1 / 10

Mostly bad Acting and overdone Camera Work

The begning and ending is good, but inbetween everything is made in a very uninteresting way.Looks like a 5 year old kid was operating the camera. Random camera movement, zoom .. May be this is a creative decision but this spoilt teh expirence of watching a good film. It just gives a bad headache when you watch on big screen.I watched it at the international film festival of India 2023 as the closing film. Sad to see that most of the audiance dropped half way through the film, The rest were using mobile or sleeping.The story was interesting for audiance interested in boxing, but if this was done in a more audiance friendly way, it would have become a great film.
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