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7 February 1997 (USA)
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What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000? Next question.
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A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter, in order to collect $50,000 if he survives. full summary | add synopsis
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When the best of the worst is the best
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Leguizamo | ... | Pestario 'Pest' Vargas |
 | Jeffrey Jones | ... | Gustav |
 | Edoardo Ballerini | ... | Himmel |
 | Freddy Rodríguez | ... | Ninja (as Freddy Rodriguez) |
 | Tammy Townsend | ... | Xantha Kent |
 | Aries Spears | ... | Chubby |
| Joe Morton | ... | Mr. Kent |
| Charles Hallahan | ... | Angus |
 | Tom McCleister | ... | Leo |
 | Ivonne Coll | ... | Gladyz |
 | Pat Skipper | ... | Glen Livitt |
| Jorge Luis Abreu | ... | Piercer |
| Jennifer Broughton | ... | Bank Employee |
| Yau-Gene Chan | ... | Cook (as Yau Gene Chan) |
 | Judyann Elder | ... | Mrs. Kent |
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Rated PG-13 for crude sexual, scatalogical and ethnic humor.
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84 min
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Director Cameo: [Paul Miller]the father of the boy going through his Bar Mitzvah rights.
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Continuity: When Pest is at Gustav's for the first time, he has a cigar in his left hand. In the very next shot, it has jumped to his right.
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Spoofs "The Little Rascals" (1955)
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I Love Rock n' Roll
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What can I say about this film. Well I'd no intention of watching it when I did, before then I'd never heard of it, but sure enough on a bus trip in Eastern Europe I was going to take in the whole film.
Well there we were, myself, my wife and two other travel buds on a bus from Plovdiv to Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria. It was a route I knew well, crappy road windy hills. Not a nice journey to experience whilst still in the depths of a Mastika hangover. Still these things have to be done.
Any how this film just came up on our journey, and with a hangover it really was the funniest film I'd ever seen, although trying to watch it whilst trying not to be sick was something of a challenge. It had not helped that after a short pit stop on the way we got back on the bus last and had ended up on the worst seats, the one's at the back. So I might well just have been on a ferry crossing in rough seas. Going green doesn't't even describe it.
Any back to the film, well this stupid idiotic film came on, and bizarrely enough it was excellent. Totally carried by the sharp intensity of lead actor, yes that guy that also did the voice over for the Ice Age Sloth. I felt like I was watching Jim Carrey before Jim Carriey's time. Only this guy John Leguizamo seemed to have even more energy.
Needless to say I was constantly in stitches followed by the need for deep breaths and focus to overcome the nasty green spells.
After a night on the sauce or during, I'd highly recommend this film.
Certainly a departure from the main.