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Panic Mechanic

11/29/1996

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1hr 40min

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Comedy

STORY

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Leon Schuster
  • Tolla Van Der Merwe
  • Frantz Dobrowsky
  • Nana Stapelberg
  • Themba Ndaba

    Director

  • David Lister

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • South Africa

LANGUAGES

  • Afrikaans
  • English

Cast

Leon Schuster

Schuks

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Jakob

Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

Themba Ndaba

Billy

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

John Robbie

Himself

Dorette Nel

Saartjie

Sello Sebotsane

Hijacker

Desmond Dube

SABC man

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