Shaft

Synopsis: 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.

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director(s): John Singleton

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale

Production: Paramount Pictures

1 win & 13 nominations.


IMDB:: 5.9
Metacritic:: 50
Rotten Tomatoes:: 68%

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: R
Year:: 2000
: 99 min
: $70,334,258
: Website
: 365 Views

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Hey, what's up?
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Looks ilke the kld
got clocked wlth that.
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- Is he golng to make it?
- Got hls head stove in pretty good.
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- Witnesses?
- No.
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- Dld he come from in there?
- He's dressed ilke it.
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- Dld you let anybody leave?
- I know the job.
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I'm just dolng mlne.
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03:45,680 -- 00:03:47,636
Excuse me.
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Was there anythlng pecullar,
any commotion? Dld you see...
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just call her and say
what i told you to say.
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Hang up the phone.
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Don't worry about my father, worry
about me. I'm not golng to argue...
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- what?
- How dld you get that blood on you?
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What blood?
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I'll ask you agaln. If you glve me
attltude, i'll drag you out by your halr.
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How dld you get
that blood on yourself?
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It was ilke...
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he started it...
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...and i flnlshed it.
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Look, i was razzln' the guy.
He couldn't take a joke.
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So you cracked hls head open.
I can dlg it.
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He left all plssed off.
I followed hlm out to apologlse.
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Next thlng i know,
he's comlng at me wlth a sllver bat.
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I was defendlng myself.
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Anybody see?
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No, offlcer.
It was just me and hlm.
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- Do you know who my father is?
- No. Do you?
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- Take hlm out.
- Let's go.
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What's your name?
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- Dlane palmlerl.
- What dld you see?
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Nothlng.
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- So why dld you polnt that guy out?
- I dldn't.
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- What's that?
- What?
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- What dld you see, dlane?
- Nothlng. I swear.
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It's a zoo in here.
How can i see anythlng?
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Detective, we have a potentlal wltness
you should see.
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I'll be back in a mlnute.
Keep her company, okay?
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That raclst bastard!
That's the one that dld it.
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- How do you know? Dld you see it?
- No.
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He was slttlng over there. He hassled
trey from the mlnute we walked in.
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Rlght thls way.
Thls table over here.
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Yo!
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Excuse me, slr. Yo!
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- What's up, man?
- They don't serve malt ilquor here.
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No malt ilquor, all rlght?
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- No... all rlght? All rlght?
- What the hell is your problem?
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- Let's go. I want to go.
- No, we're flne. We're flne.
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Don't even worry about it.
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Have a seat over here.
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