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Panic Mechanic

1996 1 hour 41 minutes
59/100

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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.

Released

29th November 1996

29 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 41 minutes

Finishes at 7:45pm

Budget

$262,987 ($557,243 today)

Revenue $949,678Profit

Ratings and awards

  • IMDB Logo

    6.1/10

  • TMDb Logo

    57%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    59%

Directed by

David Lister

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Written by

Gus Silber, Andre Scholtz, Leon Schuster

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