The Featherweight is a 2024 American biographical sports drama film directed by Robert Kolodny, written by Steve Loff, and starring James Madio as professional boxer Willie Pep.

[4] Set in 1964, a direct cinema camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired two-time world featherweight boxing champion.

Now living in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife Linda, an aspiring actress half his age, a drug-addled son, his Italian immigrant parents, mounting debts and the feeling of faded glory ...

[16] It was the highest-grossing film at the Quad Cinema during its opening weekend, where it sold out three evening shows on consecutive nights, causing it to be held over for an additional week.

[19] It received praise by Indiewire, who compared the cinéma vérité to John Cassavetes[20] and Dana Thomas calling it a "mash-up Mean Streets and Raging Bull " in The Style Files.