Movie
Shaft
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-06-15
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Shaft Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft
- Vanessa Williams as Carmen Vasquez
- Jeffrey Wright as Peoples Hernandez
- Christian Bale as Walter Wade, Jr.
- Busta Rhymes as Rasaan
- Dan Hedaya as Jack Roselli
- Toni Collette as Diane Palmieri
- Richard Roundtree as "Uncle" John Shaft
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Jimmy Groves
- Josef Sommer as Curt Flemming
- Lynne Thigpen as Carla Howard
- Philip Bosco as Walter Wade Senior
Crew
- John Singleton - Director
- Shane Salerno - Screenplay
- Richard Price - Screenplay
- John Singleton - Screenplay
- John Singleton - Story
- Shane Salerno - Story
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