Panic Mechanic (1996)

11/29/1996 (ZA) • 1h 40m

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.

Top Billed Cast

Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

Dorette Nel

Saartjie


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

rocket

slapstick comedy

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