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Panic Mechanic (1996)
Directed by David Lister
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.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Leon Schuster | Frantz Dobrowsky | Tolla Van Der Merwe | Nana Stapelberg | Themba Ndaba | Taryn Sudding | John Robbie | Sello Sebotsane | Dorette Nel | Desmond Dube | Lieb Bester | Ernest Ndhlovu | Tim Plewman | Coco Merckel | Pierre van Pletzen | Andries van der Heever | Ruth Cele | Thamele Mavuya | Dick Reineke | Zukile Gqobose | Francois Stemmet | Marga van Rooy | Nick Collis | James Borthwick | Nick Lorentz | Terence Reis | Richard Carter | David Hall-Green | John Lesley | Wendy Rudolph | Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole | Hannah Botha | Andre Scholtz | Shaleen Surtie-Richards | Kobus Wiese