Panic Mechanic (1996)

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 Nov. 29, 1996 101 min None+

Genres: Comedy

Keywords: tmdb.rocket, imdb.rhyme-in-title, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.afrikaans, tmdb.slapstick-comedy, imdb.blackface, imdb.carjacking, imdb.hidden-camera

Country: South Africa
Languages: English, Afrikaans