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.
Title | Panic Mechanic |
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Year | 1996 |
Genre | Comedy |
Country | South Africa |
Studio | |
Cast | Leon Schuster, Tolla Van Der Merwe, Frantz Dobrowsky, Nana Stapelberg, Themba Ndaba, Taryn Sudding |
Crew | David Lister (Director) |
Keyword | rocket, slapstick comedy |
Release | Nov 29, 1996 |
Runtime | 100 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 5.70 / 10 by 3 users |
Popularity | 4 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | Afrikaans, English |