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Panic Mechanic (1996)

5.7 | Nov 29, 1996 (ZA) | Comedy | 01:42

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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Director
Screenplay, Story, Co-Producer
Additional Casting
Director of Photography
Production Coordinator
Screenplay, Producer
Production Accountant
Armorer, Weapons Master
Sound Effects Editor, First Assistant Editor
Screenplay

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Frantz Dobrowsky
Jack Paddaman
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Nana Stapelberg
Gloria Haasbroek
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Taryn Sudding
Annie / Various characters
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John Robbie
Himself
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Dorette Nel
Saartjie
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Desmond Dube
SABC man

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