The Pest (1997) [PG-13]

Release Date:
February 7, 1997

Original Title:
The Pest

Alternate Titles:
O Peste
Un tío llamado Peste

Genres:
Action | Comedy

Production Companies:
The Bubble Factory
TriStar Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  GB: 12  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 82

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

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?

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ADR Editor:
Laura Laird

Art Direction:
Suzette Ervin

Boom Operator:
Gloria Cooper

Casting:
Wendy Kurtzman

Choreographer:
Fatima Robinson

Co-Producer:
John Leguizamo
David Bar Katz

Color Timer:
Phil Hetos

Costume Design:
Tom McKinley

Costumer:
Tara Spurlock
Dennis McCarthy

Director:
Paul Miller

Director of Photography:
Roy H. Wagner

Editor:
Ross Albert
David Rawlins

Executive Producer:
Robert Papazian

First Assistant Editor:
Sam Seig

Location Manager:
Andree Juviler

Music Consultant:
Ira Newborn

Music Editor:
Charles Martin Inouye

Original Music Composer:
Kevin Kiner

Producer:
Jonathan Sheinberg
Sid Sheinberg
Bill Sheinberg

Production Design:
Rodger Maus

Property Master:
John A. Keim

Screenplay:
David Bar Katz

Script Supervisor:
Joanne Small

Set Decoration:
Jim Duffy

Set Designer:
Carole Lee Cole
Ray Markham

Short Story:
Richard Connell

Sound Mixer:
Mark Ulano

Special Effects Coordinator:
Paul J. Lombardi

Still Photographer:
Alan Markfield

Story:
John Leguizamo
David Bar Katz

Stunt Coordinator:
Norman Howell

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Carolyn Lancet

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