Sweet 'n Short
Sweet 'n Short
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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Cast
Leon Schuster
as Sweet Coetzee
James Borthwick
as Shawn Raymond
Marius Du Plooy
as Farmer's son
Jurgen Hellberg
as Orange farmer
Warrick Grier
as Doctor
John Hussey
as Steward Andrews
Lizz Meiring
as Bride
Ted Le Plat
as Golfer
Casper De Vries
as George Weedle
Jamie Bartlett
as Spookie Simpson
Lillian Dube
as Eunice Shai
Sean Higgs
as Cowboys Scrumhalf
Gray Hofmeyr
as Man in hallway
Alfred Ntombela
as Alfred Short
Hannes Muller
as Cowboy lock