Overview - Panic Mechanic

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

• Name: Leon Schuster

  Character: Schuks

  Popularity: 1.0015

  

• Name: Frantz Dobrowsky

  Character: Jack Paddaman

  Popularity: 0.6238

  

• Name: Tolla Van Der Merwe

  Character: Jakob

  Popularity: 0.5846

  

• Name: Nana Stapelberg

  Character: Gloria Haasbroek

  Popularity: 0.4134

  

• Name: Themba Ndaba

  Character: Billy

  Popularity: 0.5051

  

• Name: Taryn Sudding

  Character: Annie / Various characters

  Popularity: 0.3224

  

• Name: John Robbie

  Character: Himself

  Popularity: 0.3168

  

• Name: Sello Sebotsane

  Character: Hijacker

  Popularity: 0.4528