Sweet 'n Short
1991/12/13 • Released • Afrikaans, English
Overview
In South Africa, Sweet Coetzee wins an award for 20 years service as a sportscaster on his 40th birthday, beating his rival, pompous George "The Weasle" Weedle. After Sweet gets drunk one night at his birthday party, he misses a sportscast and his boss, Bryce Williams demotes him to interviewer and promotes Weedle. A subplot of the film are two robbers, "Bossy" and "Savage" who the main characters remain remotely unaware of as they are just a comic theme. Sweet pulls a prank on Weedle during a golf game and is suspended for six month. Sweet also records Weedle having humorous intercourse with a prostitute, "The Orphan in a Storm". Sweet then decides to drown his sorrows in a casino at the slot machines, where he tricks a small boy, Alfred "Shorty" Short into thinking he is a genie. Bossy and Savage try to rob the casino when they accidentally break the disco ball and it knocks Sweet unconscious just as he hits the jackpot.
Director : Gray Hofmeyr
Casts
Leon Schuster
Sweet Coetzee
Alfred Ntombela
Alfred Short
Casper De Vries
George Weedle
James Borthwick
Shawn Raymond
Sean Higgs
Cowboys Scrumhalf
Jamie Bartlett
Spookie Simpson
Jurgen Hellberg
Orange farmer
Marius Du Plooy
Farmer's son
Ted Le Plat
Golfer
Warrick Grier
Doctor
Lillian Dube
Eunice Shai
John Hussey
Steward Andrews
Lizz Meiring
Bride
Gray Hofmeyr
Man in hallway
Recommended
Pretville
November 22, 2012
RETURN
November 7, 2024
Return
Strange Object
October 7, 2020
Return
March 21, 2024
WWE WrestleMania XXVII
April 2, 2011
Return
February 19, 2023
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
November 29, 2019
Fate
March 14, 2003
2017 Miss Grand Thailand
July 5, 2017
Test
November 30, 2007
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading?
January 10, 2020
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II
June 25, 1989
Bari Lai Lai Lai
June 24, 2019
Hold Anything
October 1, 1930
The Man from Nowhere
February 18, 1937
The Jurassic Games: Extinction
June 24, 2025
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
March 31, 2008