Heart of the Highveld

Comedy that grows from character, rather than being a string of jokes insulated from any feel of real life, is hard to come by in South Africa, and Jozi should be enjoyed for that -- as well as for its heart, its quirky emotional centre and its take on this great and awful city on the Highveld.

Carl Beukes takes the lead, playing a TV writer burning himself out on heaps of cocaine, desperately trying to get his mojo back but only making it worse with each snort. He's behaving extremely erratically when his friends make an "intervention" and he finds himself in rehab in a rather unpleasant rural kind of religious concentration camp. From there, he must find his way back to some kind of normalcy.