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Calorie Rating: 141
Released: 1996-11-29
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Budget: 262987
Revenue 949678


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.

Director / Directors

Clive Stafford
First Assistant Director
Tamsin Hall
Continuity



Cast

Leon Schuster
Character: Schuks
Frantz Dobrowsky
Character: Jack Paddaman
Tolla Van Der Merwe
Character: Jakob

Nana Stapelberg
Character: Gloria Haasbroek
Themba Ndaba
Character: Billy
Taryn Sudding
Character: Annie / Various characters

John Robbie
Character: Himself
Sello Sebotsane
Character: Hijacker
Dorette Nel
Character: Saartjie

Desmond Dube
Character: SABC man
Lieb Bester
Character: Gys
Ernest Ndhlovu
Character: SABC boss

Tim Plewman
Character: Minister of Transport
Coco Merckel
Character: Chauffeur
Pierre van Pletzen
Character: Coetzee

Andries van der Heever
Character: Leader of the Opposition
Ruth Cele
Character: The President
Thamele Mavuya
Character: Frankie (Homeless Child)

Dick Reineke
Character: Schuks' Neighbour
Zukile Gqobose
Character: Mfusi
Francois Stemmet
Character: Jan van der Merwe

Marga van Rooy
Character: Mrs. van der Merwe
Nick Collis
Character: Self - Actor in Audition
James Borthwick
Character: Self - Actor in Audtion

Nick Lorentz
Character: Self - Actor in Audtion
Terence Reis
Character: Self - Actor in Audtion
Richard Carter
Character: Camp Chap

David Hall-Green
Character: TV Newscaster
John Lesley
Character: Priest
Wendy Rudolph
Character: Pizza Delivery Lady

Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole
Character: Barman
Hannah Botha
Character: Minibus Passenger (uncredited)
Andre Scholtz
Character: Kobus Wiese's Friend (uncredited)

Shaleen Surtie-Richards
Character: Minibuss Passenger (uncredited)
Kobus Wiese
Character: Self (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Leon Schuster
Screenplay
Gus Silber
Screenplay
Andre Scholtz
Screenplay

Edgar Bold
Co-Producer
Carl Fischer
Executive Producer

Leon Schuster
Co-Producer
Neill Solomon
Original Music Composer

James Robb
Director of Photography
Christian Mc Cabe
Production Design

Anni Taylor
Key Makeup Artist
Amanda Ross-McDonald
Assistant Makeup Artist
Georgina Kriel
Production Manager

Charlotte Buys
Sound Effects Editor
Charles Evans
Foley Artist
Sharron Hawkes
Sound Effects Editor

Jonathan Kvalsvig
Boom Operator
Rüdiger Payrhuber
Sound Recordist
Juliet Philips
Foley Artist

Simon Rankin
Boom Operator
Juli Vandenberg
Supervising Sound Editor
Thorsten Wedekind
Additional Casting

Charlotte Buys
First Assistant Editor
Uta Frey
Additional Editor
Tamsin Hall
Additional Editor

Johan Lategan
Additional Editor
Tiny Laubscher
Additional Editor
Billy Crauser
Location Scout

Carol Kruger
Production Accountant
Angela Phillips
Production Coordinator

Olly Steele
Weapons Master
Cordell McQueen
Special Effects

Wayne Smith
Stunt Driver
George Amos
Assistant Grip
Rhodi-Anne Buys
Clapper Loader

Lars Cox
Focus Puller
Vincent G. Cox
Second Assistant Camera
Michael Kennedy
Focus Puller

Pam Laxen
Focus Puller
Werner Maritz
Second Assistant Camera
Koos Roets
Second Assistant Camera