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.

Painstakingly researched and constructed, the film is a visceral portrait of the discontents of twentieth-century American masculinity, fame and self-perception.

A motion Picture by Robert Kolodny

-Starring-

James Mario……….……….….……..Willie Pep

Ruby Wolf……………..…………Linda Papaleo

Keir Gilchrist……………….Billy Papaleo Jr.

Ron Livingston………………..……Bob Kaplan

Stephen Lang……………………………Bill Gore

Lawrence Gilliard Jr……….Sandy Saddler

An Appian Way Production

Directed by Robert Kolodny

Screenplay by Steve Loff

Produced by Bennett Elliott, Robert Greene

Asger Hussain, Steve Loff, James Madio