
Feature film — 2000
Shaft (2000)
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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A high-signal pick with 1,530 votes.
Paramount Pictures / Scott Rudin Productions / New Deal Productions / Shaft Productions / Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions
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Director: John Singleton
On screen
Cast & crew

Samuel L. Jackson
John Shaft

Vanessa Williams
Carmen Vasquez

Jeffrey Wright
Peoples Hernandez

Christian Bale
Walter Wade, Jr.

Busta Rhymes
Rasaan

Dan Hedaya
Jack Roselli

Toni Collette
Diane Palmieri

Richard Roundtree
"Uncle" John Shaft

Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Jimmy Groves

Josef Sommer
Curt Flemming

Lynne Thigpen
Carla Howard

Philip Bosco
Walter Wade Senior
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