Wednesday 16 September 2015

8 Mile (2002)


Genre: Drama/Music

Language: English

Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer & Taryn Manning  

Rating: IMDB 7.0 | Rottentomatoes 76%



The movie is about a young rapper Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith Jr (Eminem), who struggle every aspect of his life and also his last chances to become a successful rapper. He lives in a violent city called 8 mile with his alcoholic mom. He was focused on getting his rap career started but then he decide to put his music dream career on hold because he wasn’t welcome and got booed off stage. Jimmy also has to take care of his younger sister and mom. Jimmy was having a really tough time due to work and also being harassed by the people over there for being white as he lives in the ghetto area, whereby there is some racist issue between the white and black. However, that did not stop him instead he starts to stand up for himself and challenge the blacks into rap battle tournament to prove himself. Eventually, he won the battle tournament and was given a position to host a rap battle. Although, he refuses the position but he gain his confidence back.


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