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Sweet 'n Short
Sweet 'n Short

Sweet 'n Short

Genres

Comedy

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

90 mins

Rating

4.7/10

Release Date

13 December 1991

Country

South Africa

Cast

Leon Schuster

Leon Schuster

Sweet Coetzee

Alfred Ntombela

Alfred Ntombela

Alfred Short

Casper De Vries

Casper De Vries

George Weedle

Rufus Swart

Rufus Swart

Longdrop Botha

Joanna Weinberg

Joanna Weinberg

Sandy

James Borthwick

James Borthwick

Shawn Raymond

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