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Quick Info

Rating

6.0/10

Release2000

Runtime1h 39m

StatusReleased

Budget$46,000,000

Revenue$107,626,125

Production

Paramount Pictures

Scott Rudin Productions

New Deal Productions

Shaft Productions

Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions

Movie

Shaft

2000

1h 39m

6.0

Action

Adventure

Crime

Thriller

Synopsis

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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