Panic Mechanic
Panic Mechanic
A Comedy film released in 1996, Panic Mechanic runs 1h 41m and comes from South Africa. Soap2Day lists it with David Lister directing and Leon Schuster and Frantz Dobrowsky in the cast. It holds 5.7/10 from 3 votes. 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.
- Genre: Comedy
- Country: South Africa
- Director: David Lister
- Cast: Leon Schuster, Frantz Dobrowsky, Tolla Van Der Merwe, Nana Stapelberg, Themba Ndaba, Taryn Sudding, John Robbie, Sello Sebotsane, Dorette Nel, Desmond Dube, Lieb Bester, Ernest Ndhlovu
