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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Cast
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Leon Schuster
Schuks
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Frantz Dobrowsky
Jack Paddaman
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Tolla Van Der Merwe
Jakob
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Yankee Zulu
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Nana Stapelberg
Gloria Haasbroek
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Binnelanders
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Billy
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Hopeville
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Taryn Sudding
Annie / Various characters
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The Little Unicorn
John Robbie
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Sello Sebotsane
Hijacker
Known for
Trackers
Tremors 5: Bloodlines
Dorette Nel
Saartjie
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Begeertes
Dryfsand
Desmond Dube
SABC man
Known for
Hotel Rwanda
180
Lieb Bester
Gys
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Ernest Ndhlovu
SABC boss
Known for
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David Lister Director · Leon Schuster Screenplay Andre Scholtz Screenplay
Worldwide gross $950K · Budget $263K · United States release January 1, 1997
Box office
Budget
$262,987
Worldwide gross
$949,678
Gross vs. budget
3.6×
Production
South Africa
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Afrikaans · English
Release dates
South Africa · November 29, 1996
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1997
Theatrical
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