Panic Mechanic backdrop
Panic Mechanic poster
Trailer
Panic Mechanic
5.7
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1h 40m
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1996
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Released
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.

Cast
Leon Schuster poster
Leon Schuster
Schuks
Tolla Van Der Merwe poster
Tolla Van Der Merwe
Jakob
Frantz Dobrowsky poster
Frantz Dobrowsky
Jack Paddaman
Nana Stapelberg poster
Nana Stapelberg
Gloria Haasbroek
Themba Ndaba poster
Themba Ndaba
Billy
Taryn Sudding poster
Taryn Sudding
Annie / Various characters
John Robbie poster
John Robbie
Himself
Dorette Nel poster
Dorette Nel
Saartjie
Sello Sebotsane poster
Sello Sebotsane
Hijacker
Desmond Dube poster
Desmond Dube
SABC man
Lieb Bester poster
Lieb Bester
Gys
Ernest Ndhlovu poster
Ernest Ndhlovu
SABC boss
Pierre van Pletzen poster
Pierre van Pletzen
Coetzee
Tim Plewman poster
Tim Plewman
Minister of Transport

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