Panic Mechanic
1996 | 100m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | David Lister |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 29, 1996 |
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| Director: | David Lister |
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| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | rocket, slapstick comedy |
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| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Leon Schuster | Schuks |
| Tolla Van Der Merwe | Jakob |
| Frantz Dobrowsky | Jack Paddaman |
| Nana Stapelberg | Gloria Haasbroek |
| Themba Ndaba | Billy |
| Taryn Sudding | Annie / Various characters |
| John Robbie | Himself |
| Dorette Nel | Saartjie |
| Sello Sebotsane | Hijacker |
| Desmond Dube | SABC man |
| Lieb Bester | Gys |
| Ernest Ndhlovu | SABC boss |
| Pierre van Pletzen | Coetzee |
| Tim Plewman | Minister of Transport |
| Name | Job |
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| David Lister | Director |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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