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7 February 1997 (USA) moreTagline:
What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000? Next question.Plot:
A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter, in order to collect $50,000 if he survives. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
stupidly funny more (127 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Leguizamo | ... | Pestario 'Pest' Vargas | |
| Jeffrey Jones | ... | Gustav | |
| Edoardo Ballerini | ... | Himmel | |
| Freddy Rodríguez | ... | Ninja (as Freddy Rodriguez) | |
| Tammy Townsend | ... | Xantha Kent | |
| Aries Spears | ... | Chubby | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Mr. Kent | |
| Charles Hallahan | ... | Angus | |
| Tom McCleister | ... | Leo | |
| Ivonne Coll | ... | Gladyz | |
| Pat Skipper | ... | Glen Livitt | |
| Jorge Luis Abreu | ... | Piercer | |
| Jennifer Broughton | ... | Bank Employee | |
| Yau-Gene Chan | ... | Cook (as Yau Gene Chan) | |
| Judyann Elder | ... | Mrs. Kent |
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Rated PG-13 for crude sexual, scatalogical and ethnic humor.Parents Guide:
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84 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Spain:13 | UK:12 (video premiere) | USA:PG-13 | Australia:MFun Stuff
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Cameo: [David Bar Katz]the writer appears as the man outside the Paris Club, who says, "Parties are never "mad", they're angry." moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Himmel throws up on the Pest's face, it's covered with vomit. He turns away and then turns back with a perfectly clean face. moreQuotes:
[after Gustav wasted his tranquilzers on Xantha's family and his son, missing Pest]Pest: You can't hit me! You can't hit me! You're a big sucker-butt! Ha ha ha, ha ha ha! I can't believe you're German! Ha ha h...
[Gustav hits him with the gun handle]
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"The Pest" Pestario Vargas (John Leguizamo) is a low rent con man from Miami's South Beach who has fallen deeply in debt to ill tempered members of the Scottish mafia. Pest is desperate to raise $50,000 to stave off having his legs broken, Vargas takes an offer for a very high paying one day job from Gustav Shank (Jeffrey Jones), a German businessman visiting Florida. However, it's not until later that Vargas finds out what Shank has in mind. The lunatic white supremacist Shank transports Vargas to his island compound, "Little Germany," and announces that he will hunt him as wild game. If Vargas can survive for 24 hours, he gets the cash; otherwise, his head will join the others stuffed and mounted on Shank's wall. I know this movie got bad rating, but you must understand its supposed to be funny and it is just stupid harmless fun. John Leguizamo is very funny as "The Pest" and what a great choice as the bad guy "Ed Rooney" Jeffrey Jones. If you are looking for some stupid laughs this movie is for you.