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8 Mile stars Eminem (Marshall Mathers) as the young white rapper Jimmy Smith Jr. Eight Mile Road is a road which forms the boundary between predominantly African American Detroit, Michigan, United States and the city's mostly "white" northern suburbs. The term "8 Mile" therefore represents a barrier that is difficult to cross. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Curtis Hanson (born March 4, 1945) is a film director whose movies include: Losin It (1983) The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) The River Wild (1994) L.A. Confidential (1997) Wonder Boys (2000) 8 Mile (2002) In Her Shoes (2005) Lucky You (2006) He is also a movie buff...
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Eight Mile Road Exit off of I-94 Eight Mile Road forms the boundary between the city of Detroit, Michigan (and Wayne County) and Detroits northern suburbs in Oakland and Macomb Counties. ...
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Besides Mathers, the movie stars actors like Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Omar Benson Miller, Eugene Byrd, Michael Shannon, Evan Jones, Chloe Greenfield, Taryn Manning and De'Angelo Wilson. On the cover of Playboy, February 1983 Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an American film actress of German, Irish, Swedish and 1/8th Cherokee descent. ...
Murphy performs at a USO show aboard the USS Nimitz Brittany Anne Murphy (born Sharon Bertolotti[1] on November 10, 1977) is an American actress. ...
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Plot outline
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story of the film is about a young, poor rapper living in Detroit who is a prodigy of freestyle rap. The movie starts out with Eminem's character ("B. Rabbit"), at a locally (And less professionally) organized music event similar to the Rap Olympics. He chokes on his first performance (doesn't say a word) and loses the competition. Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815 County Wayne County Mayor...
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Rabbit's best friend "Future" is the MC of this event and is played by Mekhi Phifer. A Master of Ceremonies or MC (sometimes spelled emcee) is the host of a staged event or other performance. ...
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After the initial scene at the music event, the movie focuses on the life of B. Rabbit, a young sheet metal factory worker named Jimmy Smith, Jr., who is struggling with many different aspects of his life: Getting a possible music career started, ending a relationship with one girlfriend (Janeane, played by Taryn Manning), starting a relationship with another (Alex, played by Brittany Murphy), and the constant danger that exists as a result of the people he hangs around with. He lives at the rundown 8 Mile Road trailer park home of his alcoholic mother Stephanie (Played by Kim Basinger), his much-younger sister Lily (Chloe Greenfield), and his mother's abusive live-in boyfriend Greg (Michael Shannon). Over the course of the next few days, Rabbit begins to realize that his life is spinning out of control and the only way he can get it back into control is to lose himself in the music he practices rapping to over and over again. Taryn Manning Taryn Manning (born November 6, 1978) is an American actress and singer/songwriter of the band Boomkat. ...
Murphy performs at a USO show aboard the USS Nimitz Brittany Anne Murphy (born Sharon Bertolotti[1] on November 10, 1977) is an American actress. ...
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Chloe Linnea Ayla Greenfield (born July 7, 1995) is an American actress from Detroit, Michigan. ...
Michael Shannon (born 1974) is an American actor. ...
The final, climactic scene of the movie takes place a week later at a freestyle competition similar to the one in the movie's opening scenes. At this point, Rabbit has been hyped up by his friends as a really good rapper, but until this point we are only shown snippets of his skills. Popular West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg performing for the US Navy. ...
Rabbit wins the opening round, and viewers see three progressively more impressive freestyle raps by Rabbit. In the lyrics of his last round he ultimately acknowledges with pride his 'white trash'-roots and compares it with the relatively privileged background of his antagonist (His antagonist's real name is Clarence, he went to a private school, Cranbrook, and he lives with his parents, who have a successful marriage) which is usually very unfit in a hardcore environment like the 313, where you're supposed to be someone from "the streets". He calls him a "half-way" crook in the process. Not being this, this leaves his opponent speechless and Rabbit clinches the title. As a sign of his growing maturity throughout the film, he humbly resists the pleas of his friends to go out and celebrate his victory, instead quietly walking off into the night to return to his shift at the sheet metal factory. White trash is an American ethnic slur with a social class component. ...
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Tagline: Every Moment is a Chance to Turn it Around.
Debate about biographical nature There has been considerable debate, in the mainstream press, amongst reviewers, and other viewers, on the extent to which 8 Mile is semi-autobiographical, biographical, or totally fictional. This has been fueled by the fact that events and characters depicted in the movie appear to parallel events, and people, in Mathers' own life (as presented in the media and in various songs).
Some have suggested the character Jimmy Smith mirrors Mathers as a young adult, with an alter ego of "Bunny Rabbit"/"B-Rabbit"/"Rabbit" mirroring Mathers' own "Eminem"/"Slim Shady"-alter ego, although Eminem has never made any allusion to this in the bonus feature portions of the 8 Mile DVD.
Other suggested parallels include but are not limited to:
- Rabbit's 3-1-3 (Three and One-Third) posse to D12's rap group, of which Eminem is a member.
- Rabbit's friend, mentor, and promoter Future to Dr. Dre, Eminem's real life friend, producer, and mentor. Although Eminem did not meet Dr.Dre until a stage of his life after which 8 Mile is set.
- Rabbit's friend, mentor, and promoter Future to Kon Artis (real name Denaun Porter), Eminem's friend and fellow D12 rapper. Future's real name in the movie is "David Porter"; the sharing of the surname between Future and Kon Artis is unlikely to be a simple coincidence.
- Rabbit's friend and contest MC Future to D-12 member Proof, who was Eminem's childhood friend and a frequent emcee in Detroit (Proof actually appears in the movie as the first person B-Rabbit is supposed to battle at the beginning called Lil Tick. Future responds to his good but annoying rap by calling him Lil Bitch "accidentally")
- Rabbit's little sister Lilly to Eminem's young daughter Hailie Jade Scott, noting they even sound similar. Eminem's "Lose yourself" video explicitly connects 8 Mile's Lilly to Eminem's daughter. Lilly could also be similar to Eminem's half brother.
- The 3-1-3's nemesis, "The Free World", to rap groups like the Insane Clown Posse (although they have reportedly never battle-rapped), or other similar groups with which Eminem has feuded in the past
- Rabbit's mother to Eminem's real-life mother, Debbie.
- Rabbit's ex-girlfriend in 8 Mile to his real-life divorced, re-married and recently divorced again wife, Kim.
- Rabbit's rap battles in "The Shelter" to Eminem's participation in "The Rap Olympics".
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The suggestion amongst those holding such a view is that identities and events were changed in the film, and thus should be considered "biographical", or "semi-autobiographical" (given Mathers' role in the creative process). Some people holding such views have suggested changes of names and events were done to make civil lawsuits against Eminem more difficult. Others have suggested that names were changed along with a fictionalized, sanitized account of real events, designed to legitimize Eminem as an artist, and present him in a positive light.
In contrast, Eminem, on numerous occasions, has stated that 8 Mile is a fictional story. However, he has admitted that he did indeed have a role in the creative process, and that places and events were indeed based on real events in his life. However, how far this role extended is still being debated.
Statistics - Production Budget $41,000,000
- Prints and Advertising Budget $25,000,000
- Worldwide Gross: $215,300,000 (US Gross: $116,700,000)
- US home video revenue: $130,000,000
Soundtracks The movie spawned two soundtracks The score's most famous track, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (played over the closing credits), won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Eminem and co-writer Jeff Bass did not attend the award ceremony, nor was the song performed on-air for the awards show. Co-writer Luis Resto accepted the award on behalf of the other two. Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture 8 Mile is the official music soundtrack to the 2002 movie 8 Mile, starring Eminem, who raps on five of the tracks on this soundtrack. ...
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Guest Spots The movie featured several music performers in small cameo roles, including: DeShaun Dupree Holton (October 2, 1973 – April 11, 2006), better known as Proof, was an American rapper and member of the rap group D12. ...
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