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Actor: Charles Cioffi, Dominic Barto, Drew Bundini Brown, Sherri Brewer, Victor Arnold (II)Brand: ROUNDTREE,RICHARD
Primary Contributor: Moses Gunn
Primary Contributor: Richard Roundtree
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Shaft
Movie Review: Kind of a hoot with a good soundtrack
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the look of 1971 New York that director Gordon Parks got in this retro PI tale. Gritty, dark, dirty, trash-strewn streets, cheesy interiors: they're all here. Of course, Isaac Hayes' soundtrack is fab, though the plot is a cliche and the acting, overall, is meh...This was hot stuff because it showed blacks in a different light at the time. Today, it's a time capsule of an era long gone.
Summary of Shaft
An African-American detective is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenaged daughter, and finds himself caught in a struggle among feuding factions of the underworld.Genre: Feature Film Urban Action
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clich?s (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft had a couple of sequels and a follow-up television series, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh
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