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Panic Mechanic

5.7(3)19961h 41m1

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$263K
Box office
$949.7K
Language
Afrikaans
  • rocket
  • hidden camera
  • slapstick comedy

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Behind the camera

Director

David Lister

Produced in

South Africa

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical1 Jan 1997
  • South AfricaZA

    • TheatricalPG29 Nov 1996

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Panic Mechanic was released on 29 November 1996.

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