Panic Mechanic
- 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.
Keywords
- hidden camera
- slapstick comedy
- rocket
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 29, 1996
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Afrikaans, English
- Countries
- South Africa
- Cast
- Thamele Mavuya,Coco Merckel,James Borthwick,Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole,Desmond Dube,Ruth Cele,Wendy Rudolph,Ernest Ndhlovu,Lieb Bester,Tim Plewmanand 25 more
- Director
- David Lister
- Producer
- Andre Scholtz,Carl Fischer
- Cinematography
- James Robb
- Music
- Neill Solomon
- Budget
- $262,987
- Revenue
- $949,678
- IMDb
- tt0846057