Desc: Jump the Gun: Directed by Les Blair. With Baby Cele, Lionel Newton, Michele Burgers, Thulani Nyembe. 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 command 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.