Panic Mechanic

Panic Mechanic 1996

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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.

  • Released: 1996-11-29
  • Runtime: 102 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Stars: Leon Schuster, Tolla Van Der Merwe, Frantz Dobrowsky, Themba Ndaba, Dorette Nel, Desmond Dube, Ernest Ndhlovu, Tim Plewman, Nana Stapelberg, Sello Sebotsane, Taryn Sudding, Lieb Bester, Pierre van Pletzen, John Robbie
  • Director: David Lister