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Panic Mechanic

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Calorie Rating: 141
Released: 1996-11-29
Running Time: 100 Minutes


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
Tolla Van Der Merwe
Character: Jakob
Frantz Dobrowsky
Character: Jack Paddaman

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

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

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

Pierre van Pletzen
Character: Coetzee
Tim Plewman
Character: Minister of Transport


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