The Featherweight Trailer Sets the Release Date of the Willie Pep Boxing Movie

The trailer for Robert Kolodny’s upcoming sports biographical film, Featherweight, has been made public. This occurs over a year after the movie’s world premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2023.

“Set in the mid-1960s, the film 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,” reads the film’s official synopsis. “Painstakingly researched and constructed, the film is a visceral portrait of the discontents of twentieth-century American Masculinity, fame and self-perception.”

When is The Featherweight Release Date?

Starting on September 20, The Featherweight will be available for viewing at theatres in Connecticut and New York. On September 27, it will be followed by its release in Los Angeles. The movie has a 100% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes after its global release.

Kolodny directs the movie based on a screenplay by Steve Loff. James Madio, star of Band of Brothers, will lead it as he plays renowned boxer Willie Pep. Bruce Carrington, the unbeaten professional boxer, is accompanied by Ruby Wolf (Tommy), Keir Gilchrist (Atypical), Stephen Lang (Avatar), Ron Livingston (Loudermilk), and Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (One Night in Miami). Produced by Loff, Maddio, Bennett Elliott, Robert Greene, and Asger Hussain, executive producers Jennifer Davisson, Michael Hampton, Steve James, Brian Liebman, Mark Hantoot, Donna Collins, and Angelo DeFazio.