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Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

IMDB:

5.7
Panic Mechanic

Released

11/29/1996

Duration

1h 41m

Genre

Comedy

Country

South Africa

Cast

Leon Schuster, Frantz Dobrowsky, Tolla Van Der Merwe

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.

Cast

Leon Schuster

Schuks

Leon Schuster

Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

Frantz Dobrowsky

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Jakob

Tolla Van Der Merwe

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

Nana Stapelberg

Themba Ndaba

Billy

Themba Ndaba

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

Taryn Sudding

John Robbie

Himself

John Robbie

Sello Sebotsane

Hijacker

Sello Sebotsane

Dorette Nel

Saartjie

Dorette Nel

Desmond Dube

SABC man

Desmond Dube

Lieb Bester

Gys

Lieb Bester

Ernest Ndhlovu

SABC boss

Ernest Ndhlovu