Released:
1991-12-13

Overview:
In South Africa, Sweet Coetzee wins an award for 20 years service as a sportscaster on his 40th birthday, beating his rival, pompous George "The Weasle" Weedle. After Sweet gets drunk one night at his birthday party, he misses a sportscast and his boss, Bryce Williams demotes him to interviewer and promotes Weedle. A subplot of the film are two robbers, "Bossy" and "Savage" who the main characters remain remotely unaware of as they are just a comic theme. Sweet pulls a prank on Weedle during a golf game and is suspended for six month. Sweet also records Weedle having humorous intercourse with a prostitute, "The Orphan in a Storm". Sweet then decides to drown his sorrows in a casino at the slot machines, where he tricks a small boy, Alfred "Shorty" Short into thinking he is a genie. Bossy and Savage try to rob the casino when they accidentally break the disco ball and it knocks Sweet unconscious just as he hits the jackpot.

Director:
Gray Hofmeyr

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Leon Schuster
  as
  Sweet Coetzee
• 
  Alfred Ntombela
  as
  Alfred Short
• 
  Casper De Vries
  as
  George Weedle
• 
  Rufus Swart
  as
  Longdrop Botha
• 
  Joanna Weinberg
  as
  Sandy