The Pest

The Pest

What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000?...Next question.

PG-13 1997 · 82 min · ★ 4.7 · Action, Comedy

Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?

Directed by Paul Miller · Written by John Leguizamo

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