Panic Mechanic (1996)

Details

Original Title: Panic Mechanic

Release Date: November 29, 1996

Runtime: 101 minutes

Budget: $262,987.0

Revenue: $949,678.0

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.

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Cast

Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

Tim Plewman

Minister of Transport

Francois Stemmet

Jan van der Merwe

Marga van Rooy

Mrs. van der Merwe

James Borthwick

Self - Actor in Audtion

Terence Reis

Self - Actor in Audtion

Shaleen Surtie-Richards

Minibuss Passenger (uncredited)

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