Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic

100 mins | Comedy | Nov. 29, 1996

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.

Panic Mechanic

100 mins | Comedy | Nov. 29, 1996

Panic Mechanic
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Panic Mechanic
Directors David Lister
Writers

Cast

Leon Schuster

as Schuks

Frantz Dobrowsky

as Jack Paddaman

Nana Stapelberg

as Gloria Haasbroek

Themba Ndaba

as Billy

Taryn Sudding

as Annie / Various characters

John Robbie

as Himself

Dorette Nel

as Saartjie

Sello Sebotsane

as Hijacker

Desmond Dube

as SABC man

Lieb Bester

as Gys

Ernest Ndhlovu

as SABC boss

Pierre van Pletzen

as Coetzee

Tim Plewman

as Minister of Transport