Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

1996 en 100 minutes

Rating: 5.7

Plot

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.

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Cast

Leon Schuster

Leon Schuster

Schuks

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Jakob

Frantz Dobrowsky

Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

Nana Stapelberg

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

Themba Ndaba

Themba Ndaba

Billy

Taryn Sudding

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

John Robbie

John Robbie

Himself

Dorette Nel

Dorette Nel

Saartjie

Sello Sebotsane

Sello Sebotsane

Hijacker

Desmond Dube

Desmond Dube

SABC man

Lieb Bester

Lieb Bester

Gys

Ernest Ndhlovu

Ernest Ndhlovu

SABC boss

Pierre van Pletzen

Pierre van Pletzen

Coetzee

Tim Plewman

Tim Plewman

Minister of Transport

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