Sweet 'n Short

Sweet 'n Short (1991)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1991-12-13
  • User Rating: 4.7/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Production Country: South Africa
  • Director: Gray Hofmeyr
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Summary

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.

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  • 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
Directing Gray Hofmeyr Director
Writing Leon Schuster Writer
Writing Gray Hofmeyr Writer

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