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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
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Come on, man. You suck!
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- Sh*t! They think i'm a criminal.
- Shut your mouth, f*ggot.
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- John shaft.
- Vasquez. Welcome to narcotics.
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- Jlmmy groves.
- Jack roselll.
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- Transfer in from the 3-5?
- Yeah.
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- You're shaft, huh? Heard you qult.
- Not yet.
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Luger, hurry the f*** up, man!
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Come on, you bltch bastard!
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Come on, you bllly bob motherf***er.
Open the goddamn door.
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Three happy meals or four?
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Four. Hurry up!
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Freeze, motherfuckers! Don't move!
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Everybody freeze! Grab that
motherf***er! Down on the floor!
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Somebody turn that fucklng music off!
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- Put your hands behind your back.
- Shaft, i've got one.
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Now you can't speak engllsh.
I bet you can say "kllo", can't you?
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Hey! Goddamnlt!
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Don't make me chase you.
You're golng to plss me off. Stop!
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Shlt! Shlt!
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Help me!
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Throw somethlng else!
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Disperse, motherfuckers!
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Come on!
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Watch your backs, ladles!
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Open the door!
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Open it!
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I'm golng to f*** you up
for maklng me run!
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You got me, papa.
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Peace, motherf***er.
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Good luck!
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Aprll fool, motherf***er.
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I told you not to make me run.
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Thls shlt's too tlght!
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Thlnk about thls ass-whupplng
you are golng to get.
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It's golng to be a long rlde
to the preclnct.
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Paraphernalla. Nothlng.
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- Let me call my wlfe.
- Shut up, cornbread.
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- Let me call my glrlfrlend.
- Shut the f*** up!
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Easy wlth the bralds.
What you got agalnst black men?
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- Supposed to be a factory up there.
- They must have gotten a heads up.
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My kld's got more indlctable shlt
under hls bed.
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These skells wlll get revolved
before we clock out tonlght.
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- Look at hlm.
- Who is that?
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Peoples hernandez,
a nelghbourhood alllgator.
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It's all hls play up here.
He's got half a dozen apartments.
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Keeps changlng hls shlt on us
ilke it's a shell game.
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You enjoylng the show?
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Yo, spree.
Pass me the ball.
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John, don't do it.
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Come on. No!
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Good shot.
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Peoples hernandez!
Come on down!
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Motherfuck.
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Yes!
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Uh-oh. You pissed him off now.
Here come the troops.
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Thls is egyptlan cotton.
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2-20 thread. Thls is ilke
half your shltty-assed paycheck.
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Step off, peoples.
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You wouldn't know egyptlan cotton
if pharaoh hlmself sent it to you.
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- You best sleep in that vest.
- There you go.
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You're under arrest
for assaulting an offlcer.
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They're taklng the blg man in
for actlng crazy.
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It's the only way you can touch me,
you pathetic kentucky frled nlgger.
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I got some chlcken wlngs for you.
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What have we got here?
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Concealed weapon!
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- The iceman goeth.
- Goeth for a long tlme. Come on.
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Step up.
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- Can i get my shoes shlned?
- Yeah, you sure can.
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Home sweet home.
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Hold still, please.
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I'm golng to put
so many lawyers on your ass -
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- you're golng to thlnk they
opened a branch offlce up there.
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Lawyers are for wankers.
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- Weren't you golng to smoke me?
- I smoke camel.
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It's not my slze.
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When the van comes for these fools,
thls one gets the busted seat-belt.
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What the hell is he dolng here? Tell
me it aln't one of your dlck-arounds.
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Honest to god,
i was in fear for my ilfe.
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- I know the routine.
- Shut the f*** up, cornbread!
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Yo, luger.
What's up wlth the cornbread?
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- Your problem is what?
- Nazls wlth badges.
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Nazls? You've got to ilghten up, shaft.
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I talk ilke thls all the tlme.
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I see your polnt.
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Maybe i should take an ethnlc
sensitivity workshop, huh? F*** you.
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Maybe i should workshop
my foot up your ass.
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- Plck a colour, black or blue?
- How about i make you both?
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- 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,

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