Shaft

Unfortunately "Shaft" is no longer available to stream on NOW in the UK. It may return in the future but we don't know when... Sorry!

Date Added: 30th September 2012

Date Removed: 30th September 2015

Available for: 37 months

Samuel L Jackson fills Richard Roundtree's superfly shoes (but ditches the afro) as John Shaft - the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks - in this flashy update of the original blaxploitation classic from 1971. Christian Bale sneers it up as Walter Wade Jr, the well-connected scumbag who gets away with murder - until Shaft goes on a personal vendetta to bring him down. Roundtree appears in cameo alongside Jeffrey Wright, Toni Collette and Busta Rhymes. Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton calls the shots, his best one being to retain Isaac Hayes' unbeatable score. Can you dig it?

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Year: 2000

Duration: 1hr 35m

Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Christian Bale, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Toni Collette

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