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Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

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Panic Mechanic

1996
1h 42m
5.7(3 votes)
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.

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Cast & Crew

14 members
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Leon Schuster

Schuks

Leon Schuster
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Tolla Van Der Merwe

Jakob

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Frantz Dobrowsky

Jack Paddaman

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Nana Stapelberg

Gloria Haasbroek

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Themba Ndaba

Billy

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Taryn Sudding

Annie / Various characters

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John Robbie

Himself

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Dorette Nel

Saartjie

Dorette Nel
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Sello Sebotsane

Hijacker

Sello Sebotsane
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Desmond Dube

SABC man

Desmond Dube
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Lieb Bester

Gys

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Ernest Ndhlovu

SABC boss

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Pierre van Pletzen

Coetzee

Pierre van Pletzen
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Tim Plewman

Minister of Transport

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