In another film, Super Mario Brothers, based on the video game, Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins play the Brooklyn plumbers. Leguizamo plays Sergio, a pastry chef who takes the blame for a fire that destroys the business to save his elderly employer who he suspects set the blaze to avoid bankruptcy. The residents do not suspect that the queens are actually men, and one of the town boys falls for Chi Chi. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film. The bad news is that . . .
Pest evades mobsters and becomes the target of a German businessman who likes to hunt humans.
There is a chase through Little Havana that ends on a cargo ship. John Leguizamo tears through The Pest like something newly unleashed from the inkwell of a demented cartoonist. Leguizamo plays Clown in Spawn, the film version of the comic book. Leguizamo added business to his writing and acting interests when he and David Bar Katz formed Lower East Side Films in the late 1990s. The Pest, 1997.