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Shaft

Shaft

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 15, 2000

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

User Score

60%

Original Title

Shaft

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Shaft Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions

Director

John Singleton

Budget

$46,000,000

Revenue

$107,626,125

Description

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.