Panic Mechanic (1996)
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.
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Cast
Leon SchusterSchuks- FFrantz DobrowskyJack Paddaman
Tolla Van Der MerweJakob
Nana StapelbergGloria Haasbroek
Themba NdabaBilly
Taryn SuddingAnnie / Various characters
John RobbieSelf
Sello SebotsaneHijacker
Dorette NelSaartjie
Desmond DubeSABC man
Lieb BesterGys
Ernest NdhlovuSABC boss
Tim PlewmanMinister of Transport
Coco MerckelChauffeur
Pierre van PletzenCoetzee- AAndries van der HeeverLeader of the Opposition
- RRuth CeleThe President
- TThamele MavuyaFrankie (Homeless Child)
Crew
- Director
- David Lister
- Screenplay
- Leon SchusterGus SilberAndre Scholtz
- Story
- Leon Schuster
- Executive Producer
- Carl Fischer
- Producer
- Andre Scholtz
- Original Music Composer
- Neill Solomon
- Director of Photography
- James Robb
- Editor
- Alastair Henderson
Details
- Released
- November 29, 1996
- Language
- English
