Panic Mechanic
1996/11/29 • $262,987 • Released • Afrikaans, English
Overview
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.
Director : David Lister
Casts
Leon Schuster
Schuks
Tolla Van Der Merwe
Jakob
Nana Stapelberg
Gloria Haasbroek
Themba Ndaba
Billy
Taryn Sudding
Annie / Various characters
John Robbie
Himself
Sello Sebotsane
Hijacker
Dorette Nel
Saartjie
Desmond Dube
SABC man
Lieb Bester
Gys
Ernest Ndhlovu
SABC boss
Tim Plewman
Minister of Transport
Coco Merckel
Chauffeur
Pierre van Pletzen
Coetzee
Francois Stemmet
Jan van der Merwe
Marga van Rooy
Mrs. van der Merwe
James Borthwick
Self - Actor in Audtion
Terence Reis
Self - Actor in Audtion
Shaleen Surtie-Richards
Minibuss Passenger (uncredited)
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