Shaft (2000)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Jun 16, 2000
Running Time: 98 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
synopsis
When spoiled college kid Walter Wade kills a young black student, John Shaft makes the arrest. Walter skips bail and flees the country, and after two years of waiting, Shaft hauls him back into custody as Walter secretly returns to the States. But when Walter's wealthy father posts bail once again, Walter is back on the streets and looking to put Shaft in a body bag. So are two of Shaft's corrupt colleagues, Jack Roselli and Jimmy Grovitch, as well as a Dominican drug lord, Peoples Hernandez, who wants revenge on Shaft for humiliating him in the neighborhood he rules. For backup, Shaft has only his two closest pals: Carmen, a colleague on the police force; and his streetwise confidant, Rasaan. Meanwhile, Shaft has to track down the one murder witness, Diane Palmieri, who can put all of his enemies away for good even as the toughest killers in the city close in on him.
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John Shaft
Carmen Vasquez
Peoples Hernandez
Walter Wade Jr
Rasaan
Jack Roselli
Diane Palmieri
Uncle John Shaft
Jimmy Groves
Curt Fleming
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Since "The Brady Bunch," Donny and Marie and disco have escaped from the

1970s time capsule, it was inevitable that the decade's ultimate black

hero blasted into the New Millennium.

Story

More a delayed sequel than a remake, this chapter of the Blaxploitation

series begun back in 1971 introduces us to the original John Shaft's

nephew (Samuel L. Jackson), a police detective with a fierce sense of

justice. When a racist rich kid ("American Psycho's" Christian Bale)

fatally bludgeons a black man,… Continued