The Pest

Name: The Pest
Released: 1997-2-7
Cast: Eduardo Ballerini, Jeffrey Jones, John Leguizamo, Freddy Rodriguez

The Pest

PG-13
1h 24m
1997

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Comedian John Leguizamo is The Pest, a manic Miami con man who's about to become a hunter's human prey. And if you're going to be a target, it's best to be a moving target, as The Pest proves in this hilarious high-speed hunt that careens from a neo-Nazi's private island to the party-all-the-time streets of Miami's South Beach. Crass, crude and endlessly inventive, The Pest assumes a wild variety of ethnic identities as he evades his predator with attitude intact. A totally one-of-a-kind movie.

Director:

Paul Miller

Producer:

Bill Sheinberg, Sid Sheinberg

Writer:

David Bar Katz

Cast:

Eduardo Ballerini, Jeffrey Jones, John Leguizamo, Freddy Rodriguez

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics Consensus: The Pest aims for zany comedy with social commentary, misses, and lands squarely at offensive misfire thanks to John Leguizamo's over-caffeinated performance and a script laden with stereotypes.

Reviews

Double Toasted

Martin Thomas

Anything for a laugh, anything to keep it going...

Crazy, I'll give it credit for that. Much crazier than I thought it would be, just the premise alone...it's the goofiest, not all of it, but mixed together it combines for the goofiest...

It pains me to admit just how obnoxious The Pest is because it has all the ingredients of the kind of guilty pleasure I love.

It seems to be targeted at eight-year-old boys with attention-deficit disorder, and could have been more competently made by any one of them.

August 16, 2017

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