Shaft

Shaft

6.0IMDb Score
Released:2000-06-15
Genre:Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Duration:99 min
Country:Germany, United States of America
Director:John Singleton
Actors:Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes
Production:Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Shaft Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions

Overview:

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

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