Sweet 'n Short (1991)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1991-12-13
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Top 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
- James Borthwick as Shawn Raymond
- Gerrit Schoonhoven as Savage
- Ivan D. Lucas as Bossie
- Gordon Edwards as Doc
- Sean Higgs as Cowboys Scrumhalf
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