Shaft Page #5

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.
Director(s): John Singleton
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2000
99 min
$70,334,258
Website
2,431 Views


- Anytlme, anywhere.

- Aln't nothlng between us but alr.

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- Come on!

- Go, go, go, go!

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Yo, shaft.

I ilke the way you handled that, bro.

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Shut the f*** up!

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Yo, shaft. You got a call.

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He says it's urgent. The test results

may have come back.

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Today we flnd out if i'm your daddy,

or the german shepherd.

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Pretty good.

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Well, how good is good?

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You're klddlng me.

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Red, if thls is another one of your...

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solld info?

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100 percent solld?

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No shlt.

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Where?

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All rlght, i got it. Thanks.

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I got you.

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- What's up?

- Old business.

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- You need back up?

- No, i got it.

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Rasaan. I'm calllng in a favour, son.

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Favour my ass, motherf***er.

You aln't got none left wlth me, dog.

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- You ran all your shlts out, baby.

- Don't argue, nlgger. Just do it.

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All rlght, dog.

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What happened, rasaan?

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I got to do a favour

for my man real qulck.

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- How are you dolng?

- Let's get golng.

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How are you dolng, rlchle rlch?

Remember me?

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Refresh my memory.

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Put them on.

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- Where are we off to?

- Flfteenth preclnct.

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Okay, dog.

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That's my dog, shaft, back there.

That's my man. Word up.

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You all rlght? Cold, chllly?

You want a jacket or somethlng?

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I bet you thought

i was sneaklng back in.

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To my fellow cab peepers

and flappers in crown helghts.

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Bed-stuy!

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I'm innocent!

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You look depressed, shaft.

You depressed?

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Back away from the car!

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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