Saturday Night At The Palace

Based on a play by Paul Slabolepszy, who also wrote the screenplay and stars here, this film presents a look at the turmoil in South Africa. Slabolepszy plays an unemployed racist lout, whose obnoxious behavior and failure to pay his share of the rent cause his housemates to decide to toss him out. The task of telling Slabolepszy falls on his best friend, Flynn, a milquetoast who idolizes Clint Eastwood. In another part of Johannesburg, Kani, a black man, prepares for his last shift at Rocco's Burger Palace before traveling to his Zulu homeland to see his family, whom he has been away from for two years. The film cuts back and forth between these characters as Kani...