Skeem

Oct 27, 2011

1h 30m

★ 6.0

What would you do for a box full of cold hard cash?

Overview

South African crime/comedy movie. Forced to spend the night at a creepy old holiday resort, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when, unpacking the car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Light and Dark Films

Skeem Trailers

Cast

Vista

Wandile Molebatsi

Richie Rich

Kurt Schoonraad

Jana

Lilani Prinsen

Drikus

Grant Swanby

Jackie

Casey B. Dolan

Themsi

Zikhona Sodlaka

Lizette

Michelle Scott

Jaco

Sebastian Hagen

Josh

Mark Elderkin

Hartley

Denzel Edgar

Mrs. Poggenpoel

Marie De Kock

Lucas

Kenneth Nkosi

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.

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