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Sweet 'n Short

Comedy

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.

Date: 12/13/1991

Rating: 4.7

Cast: Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Casper De Vries, Rufus Swart, Joanna Weinberg, James Borthwick, Gerrit Schoonhoven, Ivan D. Lucas, Gordon Edwards, Sean Higgs, Jamie Bartlett, Hannes Muller, Chris Olley, Derik Giessing, Natalie Gamsu, Henriëtta Gryffenberg, Kallie Knoetze, Jurgen Hellberg, Marius Du Plooy, Michal Grobbelaar, Niekie van den Berg, Mabel Mafuya, Nic Potgieter, Ted Le Plat, Douglas Bristow, Mandy Kunene, Peter Holden, Kurt Egelhof, Charlotte Butler, Warrick Grier, Leslie Mongezi, Joss Levine, Dominic Tyawa, Trevor Quirk, Riaan Cruywagen, Bettie Kemp, Alyce Chavunduka, Maxwell Michael Towson, Phil McCumskey, Lillian Dube, Sam Ngakane, Claudia Udy, John Hussey, Graham Armitage, David Hall-Green, Christel Smith, Lizz Meiring, Phillip Wolfaardt, Billy Crauser, Robert Travallyan, Ann Feldman, Nomsa Nene, Lola Ludik, Mike van den Berg, Chris Steyn, Dick Reineke, Joey Graaf, Gregory Humphreys, Gray Hofmeyr, Marvin Trump

Leon Schuster