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.
Title | Sweet 'n Short |
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Year | 1991 |
Genre | Comedy |
Country | South Africa |
Studio | |
Cast | Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Casper De Vries, Rufus Swart, Joanna Weinberg, James Borthwick |
Crew | Gray Hofmeyr (Director), Gray Hofmeyr (Writer), Leon Schuster (Writer) |
Keyword | robber, rugby |
Release | Dec 13, 1991 |
Runtime | 90 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 4.70 / 10 by 5 users |
Popularity | 4 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | Afrikaans, English |