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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Please... Stop. I'm Major Gary Cutworth. We like to keep it a little casual around here. Around here just call me Cutty. What can I do for you fellas? I was hoping to talk to you about a friend of mine, Karim? Yeah. I remember seeing you at the funeral. Everything okay up here? Yeah. Gentlemen... meet Sergeant Keith Williams, Staff Sergeant Eddie Dominguez. These fellas are friends of Karim's. They want to talk. Why don't y'all come back? - We'll have some coffee. - Yeah, decaf for me. - What's that? - I'd love a decaf.
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Last year, we started bringing back donated vehicles damaged from overseas missions, and we refurbish them here, sell them, help make profits for our rehab operations. It's crazy for us to go through those three tours together and to just lose Karim like that. Yeah, it's tough. It's real tough. Hell, why didn't he just come to us? Maybe he was scared to.
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Scared? You ever been to war? Frontlines, Harlem, '80's. That work for you? What Dom's trying to say is that the war really took its toll on a lot of men. The drinking, drugs, and... Karim was just... He was worst of all. He just couldn't cope. Yeah, and with the lack of funding and the red tape, the VA couldn't even begin to start helping. That's why we started this place. Brothers Watching Brothers. Built for soldiers, by soldiers. See, now that's a better name. And no surprise, this place was Karim's idea. That's why it was so strange when he started pulling away. - Pull out? What? - Away. He said, "pulling away." Yeah, ever since he... found religion, he basically stopped coming around. Karim? Religious?
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