This 1999 South African film features decent acting and an unremarkable plot.
Jolly, middle-aged Sipho has just quit his 15-year job as a messenger for the Johannesburg stock exchange to go into business for himself. He will retail chickens at the open market with the help of a young friend. (The idiosyncratic spelling of the title copies Sipho's lackadaisical signs.) Some humor derives from his interaction with other sellers, particularly a jealous rival at the market.
A complication is that Sipho, married to an at-home dressmaker, is romancing the young wife of a tough criminal currently in jail. Crises develop when Sipho's wife discovers the affair and throws him out, and his girlfriend's man gets out of stir.
"Chikin Biznis" is not a movie I would go out of my way to see, but a pleasant diversion and a peek into South African lower class culture.
Jolly, middle-aged Sipho has just quit his 15-year job as a messenger for the Johannesburg stock exchange to go into business for himself. He will retail chickens at the open market with the help of a young friend. (The idiosyncratic spelling of the title copies Sipho's lackadaisical signs.) Some humor derives from his interaction with other sellers, particularly a jealous rival at the market.
A complication is that Sipho, married to an at-home dressmaker, is romancing the young wife of a tough criminal currently in jail. Crises develop when Sipho's wife discovers the affair and throws him out, and his girlfriend's man gets out of stir.
"Chikin Biznis" is not a movie I would go out of my way to see, but a pleasant diversion and a peek into South African lower class culture.
