Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'Shaft' right now, here are some specifics about the Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer action flick. Shaft starring Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min. The release date of the movie is July 2nd, 1971. The movie received a user score of 64/100 on TMDb, which is informed by reviews from 397 verified users.
Want the short version of the plot? Here's the plot: "Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter."
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'Shaft' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on July 2nd, 1971
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting
June 6th, 2000
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Shaft Collection
The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.
