YANKEE ZULU is one of the highest-grossing film in the box-office history of South Africa; this fact offers daunting evidence that no innovative cinema has been developing in that country. Alternately an anti-apartheid lampoon, a HOME ALONE (1990) rip-off, and a potpourri of slapstick
techniques, this vulgar family fare is boundlessly energetic and stupefyingly crass.
As lads in the veldt, young Rhino (Ryan Mandelstam) and his native pal Zulu (Bobo Seritsani) play innocently until a racist Afrikaaner teen-ager, Rowena (Marie Van Deventer), captures Rhino's pubescent interest. Years later, Zulu (John Matshikiza), a petty criminal guest of the US penal system,
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Released:
1996
Rated:
PG
Length:
89 mins