Genre:
Action, Motion Picture
Cast:
Vanessa Williams as Carmen Vasquez,
Samuel L. Jackson
Written by:
Richard Price
Directed by:
John Singleton
Timeline:
Shooting started on September 24, 1999 and was
scheduled to end in January 2000
Release date in the USA is set on June 16, 2000
Release on home video
& DVD on December 12th, 2000
Vanessaīs appearance:
Vanessa is playing a police officer.
Whatīs special about this one:
Shaft Returns is based on the "Shaft" (70s?) TV show,
but itīs not a remake, it has itīs own story and the lead
character plays a nephew from the "original" Shaft.
US gross - $70.5 Million
"Shaft
Returns" Links:
Official
Website
Internet
Movie DataBase
Story:
Crooked cops on the take small-time drug lords
sleazy informers and sadistic rich kids ready to kill - for
police detective John Shaft, it’s just another night in the
underbelly of New York City, another shift facing down cops and
criminals who want him dead and a legal system that thrives on
money, not justice.
With Samuel L. Jackson in the starring role and John Singleton
directing, "Shaft" is a new approach to one of the
great film icons of the 1970s. He’s tough, he’s smart,
he’s cool just what you’d expect from a man whose uncle
and mentor is John Shaft, who, now as then, is played by Richard
Roundtree. Also starring in the Paramount Pictures presentation
are Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya,
Busta Rhymes and Toni Collette.
When spoiled college kid Walter Wade (Christian Bale) kills a young black student, John Shaft (Jackson) makes the arrest. Walter skips bail and flees the country, and after two years of waiting, Shaft hauls him back into custody as Walter secretly returns to the States. But when Walter’s wealthy father posts bail once again, Walter is back out on the streets and looking to put Shaft in a body bag. So are two of Shaft’s corrupt colleagues (Dan Hedaya and Ruben Santiago-Hudson) as well as a Dominican drug lord (Jeffrey Wright) who wants revenge on Shaft for humiliating him in the neighborhood he rules. For backup, Shaft has only his two closest pals: Carmen (Vanessa Williams), a colleague on the police force; and his streetwise confidant, Rasaan (Busta Rhymes). Meanwhile, Shaft has got to track down the one murder witness (Toni Collette) who can put all of his enemies away for good even as the toughest killers in the city close in on him.
