8 Mile

Factory worker Jimmy ‘Rabbit’ Smith works on his rhymes by night in preparation for rap battles. His verbal skills are his only hope of escape from his dead-end Detroit life, but he can only make it if his nerve holds. Drama., Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician’s own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit’s entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn’t gotten any easier lately; Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), and he’s getting along especially poorly with Stephanie’s new boyfriend. Rabbit has a factory job that’s tough, demeaning, and doesn’t pay especially well, and he’s convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life. Rabbit makes music with a crew of DJ’s and MC’s who call themselves Three One Third, among them his close friend Future (Mekhi Phifer), but his status as a white kid making music in a predominantly African-American community and culture is extremely intimidating, and after Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he’s convinced he’s missed his chance and that he’s doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new girlfriend Alex (Brittany Murphy), Rabbit struggles to work up the courage and the confidence to take one more shot at making his dream a reality. 8 Mile was shot on location in Detroit; the name refers to 8 Mile Road, a thoroughfare along the city’s perimeter which effectively separates the middle-class suburban neighborhoods from the lower-class inner-city., A down-and-out Detroit youth with a dead-end job and an unstable home life pursues a career as a rap artist. Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother. Convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life, he makes music with a group of underground artists., Acclaimed musical drama in which a young blue-collar worker attempts to escape from his dead-end Detroit life by competing in rapping competitions, but he can only make it if he holds his nerve., Jimmy Smith, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit’s entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn’t gotten any easier lately; Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother, Stephanie, and he’s getting along especially poorly with Stephanie’s new boyfriend., A down-and-out Detroit youth with a dead-end job and an unstable home life pursues a career as a rap artist. Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother. Convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life, he makes music with a group of underground artists. But as a white rapper, Rabbit struggles to be taken seriously in a predominantly black musical tradition., Aspiring rapper B-rabbit must deal with life on the streets of Detroit, as well as his own insecurities, in his quest to make it as a hip-hop MC., Acclaimed musical drama in which a young blue-collar worker attempts to escape from his dead-end Detroit life by competing in rapping competitions. But he can only make it if he holds his nerve., Hard-hitting drama about a white rapper from inner-city Detroit whose talent for wordplay inspires dreams of a career in hip-hop. The original song “Lose Yourself” won an Oscar., Acclaimed music-based drama in which a young blue-collar worker attempts to escape from his dead-end Detroit life by competing in rapping competitions. Can he hold his nerve in the dog-eat-dog hiphop community?, A down-and-out youth with a dead-end job and an unstable home life pursues a career as a rap artist.