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The Featherweight

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  • 1hr 39m
  • 79

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Robert Kolodny

Producer:

Bennett Elliott, Robert Greene, Asger Hussain

Writer:

Steve Loff

Runtime:

1hr 39m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • James Madio
  • Ruby Wolf
  • Keir Gilchrist
  • Stephen Lang
  • Ron Livingston
  • Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
  • Shari Albert
  • Frank John Hughes
  • Imma Aiello
  • Michael Siberry

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70
Sep 19, 2024

Kolodny handles his movie-as-documentary conceit with subtle flair and finesse. For a subgenre as crowded with movies as boxing has weight classes, The Featherweight isn’t a knockout. But it does land more than a glancing blow.

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Metacritic review by Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
The New York Times
90
Sep 18, 2024

Kolodny’s film is a touching, disquieting, relentlessly fascinating view of a troubled soul and of the world of trouble he belongs to.

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Richard Brody
The New Yorker
80
Sep 20, 2023

The film is convincingly fashioned as a candid all-access documentary, a promotional puff piece curdling before our eyes into an unintended study of mental breakdown.

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Metacritic review by Guy Lodge
Guy Lodge
Variety
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