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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
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:
David Bar Katz
John Leguizamo
Color Timer:
Phil Hetos
Costume Design:
Tom McKinley
Costumer:
Tara Spurlock
Dennis McCarthy
Director:
Paul Miller
Director of Photography:
Roy H. Wagner
Editor:
David Rawlins
Ross Albert
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:
Ray Markham
Carole Lee Cole
Short Story:
Richard Connell
Sound Mixer:
Mark Ulano
Special Effects Coordinator:
Paul J. Lombardi
Still Photographer:
Alan Markfield
Story:
David Bar Katz
John Leguizamo
Stunt Coordinator:
Norman Howell
Wardrobe Supervisor:
Carolyn Lancet
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