Shaft

Thriller, Action

Samuel L. Jackson	John Shaft
Vanessa L. Williams	Carmen Vasquez
Toni Collette	Diane Palmieri
Christian Bale	Walter Wade, Jr.
Dan Hedaya	Detective Jack Roselli
Busta Rhymes	Rasaan
Richard Roundtree	Uncle John Shaft
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Jimmy Groves
Jeffrey Wright	Peoples Hernandez
Lynne Thigpen	Carla Howard
Philip Bosco	Walter Wade, Sr.
Josef Sommer	Curt Fleming
Pat Hingle	Judge Dennis Bradford
Lee Tergesen	Luger
Daniel Von Bargen	Lt. Kearney

Director	John Singleton
Producer	John Singleton; Scott Rudin
Writer	John Singleton; Shane Salerno
Cinematography	Donald E. Thorin
Musician	David Arnold

A black college student gets murdered in the city of New York. It seems to be a racially motivated case and police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) together with his partner Carmen Velez (Vanessa L. Williams) are put on the case. The killer, Walter Wade Jr. (Christian Bale), immediately flees the country in order to avoid standing trial. John and Carmen meanwhile are trying to find the only witness of the crime, a waitress, who happened to be on break while the murder happened. But not only Shaft and Carmen are looking for the waitress, Walter Jr. and Walter Sr. are doing the same, but for different reasons. They want the only witness to be dead.