The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert KolodnyDirector
- Steve LoffWriter
Cast
- James MadioGuglielmo Papaleo (Willie Pep)
- Ruby WolfLinda Papaleo
- Keir GilchristBilly Papaleo Jr.
- Stephen LangBill Gore
- Ron LivingstonBob Kaplan
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Sandy Saddler
- Shari AlbertFran Papaleo
- Imma AielloMama Papaleo
- Frank John HughesMike Marino
- Michael SiberryBill Lee
- Jeremy LukeRocky Marciano
- Bruce CarringtonGoose