The Featherweight

2023, Movie, 1h 39min

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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6.2

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Critic Clint Worthington

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Captured as a kind of direct-cinema documentary a la the Maysles, “The Featherweight” plants us firmly as a fly on the wall to Pep’s ambitious climb back into the ring, well past his prime.

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