Panic Mechanic

The story

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.

Cast

L Leon SchusterSchuks F Frantz DobrowskyJack Paddaman T Tolla Van Der MerweJakob N Nana StapelbergGloria Haasbroek T Themba NdabaBilly T Taryn SuddingAnnie / Various characters J John RobbieHimself S Sello SebotsaneHijacker D Dorette NelSaartjie D Desmond DubeSABC man L Lieb BesterGys E Ernest NdhlovuSABC boss

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T Tim PlewmanMinister of Transport C Coco MerckelChauffeur P Pierre van PletzenCoetzee A Andries van der HeeverLeader of the Opposition R Ruth CeleThe President T Thamele MavuyaFrankie (Homeless Child) D Dick ReinekeSchuks' Neighbour Z Zukile GqoboseMfusi F Francois StemmetJan van der Merwe M Marga van RooyMrs. van der Merwe N Nick CollisSelf - Actor in Audition J James BorthwickSelf - Actor in Audtion N Nick LorentzSelf - Actor in Audtion T Terence ReisSelf - Actor in Audtion R Richard CarterCamp Chap D David Hall-GreenTV Newscaster J John LesleyPriest W Wendy RudolphPizza Delivery Lady M Mabutho 'Kid' SitholeBarman H Hannah BothaMinibus Passenger (uncredited) A Andre ScholtzKobus Wiese's Friend (uncredited) S Shaleen Surtie-RichardsMinibuss Passenger (uncredited) K Kobus WieseSelf (uncredited)