Shaft
More Shaft than you can handle.
, may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide.Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
- Director
- Tim Story
- Worldwide
- $21M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
30 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Shaft returned 0.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $30M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $21M
- Release date
- Jun 14, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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