The Pest

The Pest (1997)

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?

Date of release
1997-02-07
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Action, Comedy
Director
Paul Miller

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Miami

The Pest is a 1997 American black comedy film directed by Paul Miller and written by David Bar Katz, inspired by the classic 1924 Richard Connell short story "The Most Dangerous Game".

Production

Production of the film was announced by TriStar Pictures and The Bubble Factory alongside Slappy and the Stinkers as two projects the companies would produce. Under the terms of a contract between The Bubble Factory and Universal Studios, the production company could automatically greenlight three to four pictures – budgeted at about $8 million to $35 million each – per year for Universal to distribute.

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