Shaft (2000)
Rating: 6.0/10
Duration: 99 min
Genres: Crime, Adventure, Thriller, Action,
Director(s): John Singleton,
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.
Cast
- Jeffrey Wright as Peoples Hernandez
- Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft
- Christian Bale as Walter Wade, Jr.
- Daniel von Bargen as Lt Kearney
- Josef Sommer as Curt Flemming
- Vanessa Williams as Carmen Vasquez
- 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
- Lynne Thigpen as Carla Howard
- Philip Bosco as Walter Wade Senior
- Pat Hingle as Judge Dennis Bradford
- Lee Tergesen as Luger