Mad Buddies

2012 African film from Touchstone Pictures and Buena Vista International

Leon Schuster
Gray Hofmeyr

Produced byHelena SpringStarring

Leon Schuster
Kenneth Nkosi
Alfred Ntombela
Tanit Phoenix

CinematographyTrevor BrownEdited by

Alan Hynes
Johan Venter

Music byEd Jordan

Production
companies

Touchstone Pictures (2012–2016)
Walt Disney Pictures (2016–present)
Keynote Films

Distributed by

Buena Vista International (2012–2022)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2022–present)
Ster-Kinekor Entertainment^[1]

Release date

22 June 2012 (2012-06-22)

Running time

88 minutesCountrySouth AfricaLanguagesEnglish, Afrikaans and Zulu

Mad Buddies is a 2012 South African comedy film directed by Gray Hofmeyr, co-written by Gray Hofmeyr and Leon Schuster, and starring Leon Schuster, Kenneth Nkosi, Tanit Phoenix and Alfred Ntombela. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures acquired the film's distribution rights and released the film through the Touchstone Pictures banner. This production is an unofficial remake of the Jamie Uys films Fifty/Vyftig, Hans en die Rooinek and All the Way to Paris: films which, like this one, depict two adversaries having to assist each other to get out of awkward situations.

Plot

Enemies, Boetie (Leon Schuster) and Beast (Nkosi) are forced to embark on a road trip as unwitting subjects of a new TV reality show Mufasa Mufasa, Walla Habibi, devised by a TV producer, Kelsey, played by Tanit Phoenix. On camera, with the whole of South Africa in on the joke, the pair comes stuck at every stage of the journey until they discover that they have been conned and join forces to exact revenge.