Sweet 'n Short
A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.
Critics Sentiment
Sweet wakes up in democratic South Africa after apartheid ends
Sweet wakes up revealing everything was just a dream
The film peaks with Sweet's awakening in post-apartheid South Africa but crashes when the dream ending undermines the political prophecy that reviewers most admired.
Sweet 'n Short maintains solid comedy throughout with Leon Schuster's pranks and South African humor landing well with audiences. The film reaches its emotional and thematic peak when exploring post-apartheid social changes, which reviewers found prophetic and unforgettable. However, the dream ending significantly dampens the impact by negating the political commentary that elevated the film above typical comedy.
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Leon Schuster
Sweet Coetzee
Casper De Vries
George Weedle
Joanna Weinberg
Sandy
Alfred Ntombela
Alfred Short
Gerrit Schoonhoven
Savage
Ivan D. Lucas
Bossie
Gordon Edwards
Doc
Rufus Swart
Longdrop Botha
Sean Higgs
Cowboys Scrumhalf
James Borthwick
Shawn Raymond
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 Jnr
Farmer's son
Michal Grobbelaar
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