Panic Mechanic
Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

1996
1h 40m
5.7
US
Comedy

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.

Movie Details

Languages

Afrikaans

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Key Crew

Cast

Leon Schuster

Leon Schuster

Schuks

T

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Jakob

F

Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

N

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

T

Themba Ndaba

Billy

T

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

J

John Robbie

Himself

Dorette Nel

Dorette Nel

Saartjie

Sello Sebotsane

Sello Sebotsane

Hijacker

Desmond Dube

Desmond Dube

SABC man

L

Lieb Bester

Gys

E

Ernest Ndhlovu

SABC boss

Pierre van Pletzen

Pierre van Pletzen

Coetzee

T

Tim Plewman

Minister of Transport

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