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- 1 h 39 m
- 1 h 39 m
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.
Directed By: Robert Kolodny
Written By: Steve Loff
- 1 h 39 m
- 1 h 39 m
The Featherweight
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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.
Directed By: Robert Kolodny
Written By: Steve Loff
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As debuts go, The Featherweight is more than just a competent drama. It’s as nifty as its warts-and-all protagonist, with an inventive verité storytelling style inspired by John Cassavettes that also evokes the era’s filmmaking.
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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Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Montclair Film Festival (MFF)
• 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
