{"id":39480,"date":"2025-07-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39480"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:10:27","slug":"shade-2003-written-directed-by-damian-nieman-starring-stuart-townsend-gabriel-byrne-thandie-newton-jamie-foxx-melanie-griffith-and-sylvester-stallone-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39480","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shade&#8221; (2003) written &amp; directed by Damian Nieman; starring Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith and Sylvester Stallone \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z072525zview_shade.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Shade <\/i><\/b>(2003)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Damian Nieman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Damian Nieman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester Stallone, Dina Merrill, George Tovar, Frank Medrano, Jason Cerbone, Mark De Alessandro, Glenn Plummer, Carl Mazzocone, Bo Hopkins, Mark Boone Junior, Tony Burton, Michael Dorn <\/strong>and <strong>Hal Holbrook<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>When gambling your life, leave nothing to chance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tiffany and Miller are card hustlers and con artists.\u00a0 They are pulling off scams to get enough money to get Vernon into a high stakes underground poker game.\u00a0 Vernon is a card shark as well as a sleight of hand artist.\u00a0 With a $250,000.00 buy-in, there will be enough money in the game to set the three for life&#8230; if Vernon can win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main obstacle will be Dean<em> &#8220;the Dean&#8221;<\/em> Stevens.\u00a0 His poker skills are legendary.\u00a0 Of course if Vernon can&#8217;t beat <em>the Dean<\/em> fairly, there are other ways to win&#8230; if he&#8217;s willing to bet his life and those of Tiffany and Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damian Nieman, the writer\/director of <em>Shade<\/em> is also a professional card magician. Nieman taught the cast the skills needed to perform their tricks on camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Shade (2003) <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z072525zview_shade2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shade (2003) Director:\u00a0 Damian Nieman Screenplay: Damian Nieman Stars: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39481,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions\/39481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}