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Panic Mechanic(1996)
Status: Released
Date: 1996-11-29
57%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
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.
Languages: Afrikaans, English.
Countries:
South Africa
Budget: $262,987.00
Revenue: $949,678.00
Movie: Panic Mechanic
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
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