Company: The Fealherweight
Country: United States of America
Section: MOVIES
Discipline: Boxing
Director: Robert Kolodny
Editing: Robert Greene
Photo: Adam Kolodny
Soundtrack: Lou Reed, Retail Space
Actors: James Madio, Ruby Wolf, Ron Livingston, Sfephen Lang, Keir Gilchrist, Lawrence Gilliard Jr
Producer: Bennett Elliott, Seve Loff, Steve James, Robert Greene, Asger Hussain, James Madio
CoProducer: Appian Way
Synopsis:
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.