Summaries

Two misfits. One a Nerd the other a Spinner, Need each other to help them fit in. She needs his driving school skills to get a drivers licence, He needs to transform into a roughneck to win back his ex who dumped him for being too soft.

It is a coming-of-age film about a by the book university geek who turns to the neighborhood bad girl to learn how to be a tough guy after he was dumped by his long-time girlfriend, who cheated on him for being too soft. Dimakatso is an aspiring spinner, but is about to lose her place in the best spinning crew in town, because she doesn't have a drivers license. No driving school will take her as she is too rough on the cars, they call her 'Clutch Killer'. Thulani, whose father owns a driving school, sees how rough Dimakatso is and he offers her to her to get her licensed in exchange for her to be his new mentor "roughneck". Armed with the Dimakatso, and bad advice from his BFF friend Pule, Thulani adopts a roughneck identity of Maleather, who is actually a real person and the baddest gangster in Soshanguve. It takes his roughneck transformation, that ends up costing him his friends, dignity and identity for Thulani to realize that "being yourself is actually not a bad idea". Thulani is forced to face off with the Real MaLeather and races as himself , beating Maleather. Showing that human beings are dynamic and can have more than one identity. From fake Maleather to Geeky Racer.—Thape Media

Details

Keywords
  • coming of age drama
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Aug 8, 2023
Countries of origin South Africa
Language Tswana
Filming locations Mabopane, Pretoria, South Africa
Production companies Thape Media

Box office

Budget $6000000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 34m
Color Color
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