Overview
Plot
Detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated murder, but the sole witness vanishes and Wade flees to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade returns for trial, relying on wealth and a hired drug kingpin to eliminate the witness.
- Directors
- John Singleton
- Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya, Toni Collette, Richard Roundtree, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Josef Sommer, Lynne Thigpen, Philip Bosco, Pat Hingle, Lee Tergesen, Daniel von Bargen, Francisco 'Coqui' Taveras, Sonja Sohn, Peter McRobbie, Zach Grenier, Richard Cocchiaro
- Country
- United States of America, Germany
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
- Release date
- 2000-06-15
- Studios
- Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Shaft Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Shaft Plot and Cast
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying, but the only eyewitness disappears and Wade jumps bail to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade returns to stand trial, confident that his money and influence will secure an acquittal—especially since he has paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
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