Shaft

Shaft is a 2019 American action comedy film directed by Tim Story and written by Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, and Richard Roundtree. It is the fifth film in the Shaft series, a sequel to the 2000 film with the same title and was also Roundtree's final portrayal of the original eponymous character John Shaft Sr. before his death in 2023. The film was released theatrically in the United States on June 14, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures, and digitally in global markets on June 28, 2019, by Netflix. It received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office.

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I need to hire you.

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I need your help for a case. Oh.

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You can't afford me. You owe me.

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Just consider it payback for father figure deprivation. Nigga, what? Please don't use the N-word.

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Okay.

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What's the case?

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- I think my best friend was murdered. - You think? It was ruled as an overdose, but I have reason to believe... Whoa. Stop right there.

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I've heard all this before. You've heard all of what before?

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Friends and family of the junkies, always looking for some other reason, when a junkie is just a junkie. Case closed. You didn't know him. He was clean.

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That overdose was bogus.

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He had enough heroin in his system to kill 10 people. There's no way he could've done something like that to himself. I traced the supplier to this run-down tenement in Harlem on 139th Street.

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On 139th Street?

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You sure?

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Yeah.

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Well, that's interesting.

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Why is that interesting?

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Who did that to you, son? Don't act like you care about that. No, no, no, no. You tell me who put hands on you like you're some little punk. And you tell me right now. All right, it's this... this henchman. This guy named Manuel. What? One of Manny's push-up-doing punks did that to you?

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Yep. That motherfucker must have lost his goddamn mind.

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Shit.

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Um... What are you doing? We gotta go handle our business. Come on.

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