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Panic Mechanic
Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

1996

5.7

Categories:

  • 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.

David Lister

Director

Cast:

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  • 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 charac...