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Release date:Nov 29, 1996
Runtime:1h 41m

Panic Mechanic

★ 5.7

"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."

Comedy
English
Leon Schuster ... as Schuks
Frantz Dobrowsky ... as Jack Paddaman
Tolla Van Der Merwe ... as Jakob
Nana Stapelberg ... as Gloria Haasbroek
Themba Ndaba ... as Billy
Taryn Sudding ... as Annie / Various characters
John Robbie ... as Himself
Sello Sebotsane ... as Hijacker
Dorette Nel ... as Saartjie
Desmond Dube ... as SABC man
Lieb Bester ... as Gys
Ernest Ndhlovu ... as SABC boss
Tim Plewman ... as Minister of Transport
Coco Merckel ... as Chauffeur
Pierre van Pletzen ... as Coetzee
Andries van der Heever ... as Leader of the Opposition
Ruth Cele ... as The President
Thamele Mavuya ... as Frankie (Homeless Child)
Dick Reineke ... as Schuks' Neighbour
Zukile Gqobose ... as Mfusi
Francois Stemmet ... as Jan van der Merwe
Marga van Rooy ... as Mrs. van der Merwe
Nick Collis ... as Self - Actor in Audition
James Borthwick ... as Self - Actor in Audtion
Nick Lorentz ... as Self - Actor in Audtion
Terence Reis ... as Self - Actor in Audtion
Richard Carter ... as Camp Chap
David Hall-Green ... as TV Newscaster
John Lesley ... as Priest
Wendy Rudolph ... as Pizza Delivery Lady
Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole ... as Barman
Hannah Botha ... as Minibus Passenger (uncredited)
Andre Scholtz ... as Kobus Wiese's Friend (uncredited)
Shaleen Surtie-Richards ... as Minibuss Passenger (uncredited)
Kobus Wiese ... as Self (uncredited)
Leon Schuster... (Screenplay)
Gus Silber... (Screenplay)
Andre Scholtz... (Screenplay)
Leon Schuster... (Story)
Edgar Bold... (Co-Producer)
Carl Fischer... (Executive Producer)
Andre Scholtz... (Producer)
Leon Schuster... (Co-Producer)
Neill Solomon... (Original Music Composer)
James Robb... (Director of Photography)
Alastair Henderson... (Editor)
Christian Mc Cabe... (Production Design)
Anni Taylor... (Key Makeup Artist)
Amanda Ross-McDonald... (Assistant Makeup Artist)
Georgina Kriel... (Production Manager)
Clive Stafford... (First Assistant Director)
Charlotte Buys... (Sound Effects Editor)
Charles Evans... (Foley Artist)
Sharron Hawkes... (Sound Effects Editor)
Jonathan Kvalsvig... (Boom Operator)
Rüdiger Payrhuber... (Sound Recordist)
Juliet Philips... (Foley Artist)
Simon Rankin... (Boom Operator)
Juli Vandenberg... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Thorsten Wedekind... (Additional Casting)
Charlotte Buys... (First Assistant Editor)
Uta Frey... (Additional Editor)
Tamsin Hall... (Additional Editor)
Johan Lategan... (Additional Editor)
Tiny Laubscher... (Additional Editor)
Billy Crauser... (Location Scout)
Tamsin Hall... (Continuity)
Carol Kruger... (Production Accountant)
Angela Phillips... (Production Coordinator)
Olly Steele... (Armorer)
Olly Steele... (Weapons Master)
Cordell McQueen... (Special Effects)
Cordell McQueen... (Stunts)
Wayne Smith... (Stunt Driver)
George Amos... (Assistant Grip)
Rhodi-Anne Buys... (Clapper Loader)
Lars Cox... (Focus Puller)
Vincent G. Cox... (Second Assistant Camera)
Michael Kennedy... (Focus Puller)
Pam Laxen... (Focus Puller)
Werner Maritz... (Second Assistant Camera)
Koos Roets... (Second Assistant Camera)
Malcolm Stone... (Gaffer)
PG (South Africa)

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