May 23, 1997
Release Date

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Jump the Gun (1997)

Name: Jump the Gun
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1997-05-23

2h 4m

Running Time

May 23, 1997
Release Date

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Plot.

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.

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Release Date
May 23, 1997

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 4m

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2023-11-12

Wiki.

Jump the Gun is a 1996 South African film directed by Les Blair for Channel Four Films. The film follows six diverse, working class individuals as they try and establish themselves in the newly democratic South Africa. Les Blair's quintessentially British Kitchen sink realism is applied to a South African context. The film stars Baby Cele, Lionel Newton, and Michele Burgers amongst others. Characters were built from the ground up with South African actors by using improvisation.

The film won the Chicago International Film Festival award in 1997 for best film.