Sweet 'n Short (1991)
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.
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.
Genres
Release Date
December 13, 1991
Rating
Runtime
1h 30m
Leon Schuster
Sweet Coetzee
Alfred Ntombela
Alfred Short
Casper De Vries
George Weedle
Rufus Swart
Longdrop Botha
Joanna Weinberg
Sandy
James Borthwick
Shawn Raymond
Gerrit Schoonhoven
Savage
Ivan D. Lucas
Bossie
Gordon Edwards
Doc
Sean Higgs
Cowboys Scrumhalf
Jamie Bartlett
Spookie Simpson
Hannes Muller
Cowboy lock
Chris Olley
Makulu lock
Derik Giessing
Makulu scrumhalf
Natalie Gamsu
Angel Weedle
Henriëtta Gryffenberg
Orphan in a storm
Kallie Knoetze
Big Boer
Jurgen Hellberg
Orange farmer
Marius Du Plooy
Farmer's son
Michal Grobbelaar
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