Shaft (2000)
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Action , Crime , Thriller
Samuel L. Jackson , Vanessa Williams , Christian Bale , Jeffrey Wright , Busta Rhymes , Dan Hedaya , Toni Collette , Richard Roundtree , Ruben Santiago-Hudson ,
Josef Sommer , Lynne Thigpen , Philip Bosco , Pat Hingle , Lee Tergesen , Daniel von Bargen
John Singleton
IMDB 99
2000
New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case| a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their
friend humiliated the one who was sprouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. | the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he
has the id of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments| Shaft smacks him. Shaft
later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later| Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him
bail| that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples
Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
With a charismatic lead, this new Shaft knows how to push the right buttons.