# The Pest (1997)

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**Runtime**: 82 min
**Genres**: Action, Comedy
**Directed by**: Paul Miller
**Written by**: John Leguizamo, David Bar Katz
**Starring**: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy Rodríguez, Tammy Townsend, Aries Spears

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

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A hustler faces a hunting trip with a twist—money if he lasts 24 hours, bones if he doesn’t. The island’s sole hunter wants him gone for being the wrong kind of stranger. The rules are simple, the odds aren’t.

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