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2002 picture by Curtis Hanson

8 Mile
Eight mile ver2.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Written by Scott Silver
Produced by
  • Curtis Hanson
  • Brian Grazer
  • Jimmy Iovine
Starring
  • Eminem
  • Mekhi Phifer
  • Brittany Irish potato
  • Kim Basinger
Cinematography Rodrigo Prieto
Edited by Jay Rabinowitz
Craig Kitson
Music by Eminem

Production
companies
  • Imagine Entertainment
  • Mikona Productions GmbH & Co. KG
Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release appointment
  • November 8, 2002 (2002-11-08)

Running time

 110 minutes[1]
Country The states
Language English
Budget $41 million[2]
Box office $242.9 one thousand thousand[two]

viii Mile is a 2002 American drama pic written by Scott Silver and directed past Curtis Hanson. It stars Eminem in his picture debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger. The moving picture, which contains autobiographical elements from Eminem's life, follows white rapper Jimmy Smith Jr. aka B-Rabbit (Eminem) and his attempt to launch a career in hip hop, a genre dominated by African-Americans. The championship is derived from 8 Mile Route, the highway betwixt the predominantly African-American city of Detroit and the largely white suburban communities to the due north that Eminem originally lived in.

eight Mile was a critical and box role success. Information technology opened at No. i in the United states of america with $51.3 million grossed in its opening weekend and an eventual total of $242.9 meg worldwide.[ii] The album's accompanying soundtrack was also a commercial success, being certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3] The moving-picture show garnered numerous award nominations and wins, including an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" win for Eminem, Luis Resto and Jeff Bass at the 75th Academy Awards. viii Mile was named one of the best films of 2002 by several publications.

Plot [edit]

Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. is a 23-year old, unhappy blue-collar worker from a poor Missouri family who now are residing in a trailer park about Detroit in Warren, Michigan. Jimmy has moved back due north of 8 Mile Road to the run-down trailer home in Warren, Michigan, of his alcoholic female parent Stephanie, his younger sister Lily, and Stephanie's abusive live-in boyfriend Greg. Although encouraged past his friends, Jimmy worries virtually his potential as a rapper. One dark, Jimmy chokes during a rap boxing at a local venue, the Shelter, and he leaves the stage humiliated.

During the twenty-four hour period, Jimmy works at a car mill. (He previously worked at a Little Caesar's Pizza in Warren, Michigan.) Desperate for money, he asks for extra shifts, simply his supervisor bluntly dismisses his request because of his habitual tardiness. Afterwards on, Jimmy befriends a adult female named Alex, and he begins to have more responsibility for the management of his life.

At some signal, Stephanie receives an eviction notice, as she cannot pay rent. Despite her all-time attempts to keep the eviction detect a clandestine, Greg discovers it and confronts Stephanie. When Jimmy punches Greg for pushing his female parent to the ground, they fight, catastrophe in Greg leaving Stephanie for good.

Jimmy's friendship with Flash, a radio DJ with ties to a record characterization promoter, becomes strained after he discovers that Wink does promotional piece of work for Jimmy's rivals, a rap group known equally the "Leaders of the Complimentary World". At one indicate, Jimmy and his friends go into a violent brawl with the Free World crew, which is disrupted when Jimmy's friend Cheddar Bob pulls out a gun and accidentally shoots himself in the leg; he survives subsequently being rushed to the hospital.

During a dejeuner intermission at piece of work, one of Jimmy's coworkers performs a freestyle rap insulting a gay co-worker, Paul. Jimmy raps a freestyle defending Paul. Alex arrives and is impressed by Jimmy's deportment and they take sex. Wink arranges for Jimmy to see with producers at a recording studio, only Jimmy finds Wink and Alex having sex. Enraged, Jimmy attacks Wink as Alex tries to break up their atmospherics.

In retaliation, Flash and the Leaders of the Free Globe assail Jimmy outside his trailer. The leader of the gang, Papa Doc holds Jimmy at gunpoint and threatens to impale him, but Wink dissuades him. After the grouping has left Jimmy alone, his female parent arrives with plenty coin to pay to avoid eviction, having won $3,200 at a bingo tournament.

Jimmy's best friend and battle host, Future pushes him to get revenge by competing against the Leaders of the Costless Globe at the side by side rap battle. Jimmy agrees, merely his boss, having noticed improved endeavour at piece of work, asks Jimmy to practice a tardily-night shift. He agrees, but it conflicts with the battle at the Shelter. Alex unexpectedly visits Jimmy at work. She says good day, as she is going to New York, and she is hoping to encounter Jimmy at the Shelter later. This motivates Jimmy to do the battle. He asks Paul to embrace the start of his shift every bit a favor while Jimmy goes to the battle.

In all rounds of the rap battle, Jimmy has to compete against one member of the Gratuitous World crew. Later handily winning the first two rounds against Lyckety-Splyt and Lotto, he faces Papa Medico. Going kickoff, Jimmy preempts Papa Doc's potential insults, acknowledging his own "white trash" roots and difficult life, while also exposing that Papa Medico, despite posing as a thug, had a comparatively stable and even privileged upbringing. Embarrassed and with cypher to say in rebuttal, Papa Doc hands the microphone dorsum to Future, conceding the boxing. After being congratulated past Alex and his friends, Jimmy is offered a position by Future co-hosting battles at the Shelter. Jimmy declines, saying that hosting is Time to come'due south thing and he needs to do his ain. Jimmy leaves lonely and returns to work.

Cast [edit]

Jimmy and his friends and family
  • Eminem equally Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr.
  • Kim Basinger as Stephanie, Jimmy and Lily'due south mother
  • Chloe Greenfield as Lily, Jimmy's sister
  • Michael Shannon every bit Greg Buehl, Stephanie's freeloading abusive boyfriend
  • Mekhi Phifer as Futurity, Jimmy's closest friend and the rap boxing host
  • Brittany Irish potato equally Alex Latourno, Jimmy's love interest
  • Evan Jones as Cheddar Bob, Jimmy's friend
  • Omar Benson Miller equally Sol George, Jimmy's friend and Iz's brother
  • De'Angelo Wilson as DJ Iz, Jimmy's friend and Sol's brother
  • Taryn Manning equally Janeane, Jimmy's ex-girlfriend
  • Craig Chandler as Paul, Jimmy's colleague
  • Larry Hudson as bouncer
  • Kwanda Khalimashe equally the Child
Rappers
  • Eugene Byrd as Wink, a DJ
  • Anthony Mackie as Clarence "Papa Doc"
  • Proof equally Lil' Tic
  • Xzibit as Mike, Male Lunch Truck rapper
  • Obie Trice equally Male person parking lot rapper
  • Miz Korona every bit Vanessa, Female person Lunch Truck rapper
  • Gerald L. "Strike" Sanders as Lyckety-Splyt, the first rapper Jimmy battles against[4]
  • Nashawn "Ox" Breedlove as Lotto, the 2nd rapper Jimmy battles confronting
  • Brandon T. Jackson (uncredited) as a Chin Tiki gild-foe[5]
  • Waverly Alford III every bit Big O, Male Rapper interviewed at the Radio Station

Product [edit]

The moving picture started production in 2000.[6] The picture show began shooting in September 2001 in Highland Park, Michigan.[7]

Music [edit]

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Moving-picture show 8 Mile is the soundtrack to 8 Mile. Eminem features on five tracks from the album. It was released under the Shady/Interscope label and spawned Eminem's first number one US single[eight] "Lose Yourself". The album debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Nautical chart that year, with over 702,000 copies sold, and a further 507,000 copies were sold in the second calendar week, also finishing the year as the 5th-best-selling anthology of 2002, with US sales of iii.2 one thousand thousand despite being on the market place for only two months.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

8 Mile opened at No. 1 with $51,240,555 in its opening weekend, the so 2d-highest opening for an R-rated movie in the U.South.[9] The movie would go on to gross $116,750,901 domestically and $126,124,177 overseas, for a full of $242,875,078 worldwide.[ii] The film's final domestic gross would agree the picture show at No. 3 in Box Office Mojo'southward "Pop Star Debuts" list, behind Austin Powers in Goldmember (Beyoncé) and The Bodyguard (Whitney Houston).

The 8 Mile DVD, which was released on March eighteen, 2003, generated $75 million in sales and rentals in its first calendar week, making information technology the biggest DVD debut ever for an R-rated motion-picture show and putting it in the all-fourth dimension Top ten for first calendar week habitation video sales for a moving-picture show. A VHS version was also released on the same date.[10] [11]

Critical reception [edit]

8 Mile received positive reviews, with critics praising the music and Eminem'due south functioning. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports the movie is "Certified Fresh", with 75% of 214 professional person critics giving the film a positive review and a rating average of 6.70/10. The site's consensus is that "Even though the story is overly familiar, there'south enough here for an engaging ride."[12] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 77 based on 38 reviews, which indicates "more often than not favorable reviews".[13] CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend revealed the average grade cinemagoers gave 8 Mile was B+ on an A+ to F scale, with the core under-21 demographics giving it an A.[xiv]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars. He said that we "are hardly started in 8 Mile, and already we encounter that this movie stands aside from routine debut films past pop stars" and that it is "a faithful reflection of his myth". He said that Eminem, as an actor, is "convincing without beingness too electrical" and "survives the Ten-ray truth-telling of the film photographic camera"[15] In the At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper review, both Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film a thumbs up; Roeper said that Eminem has a "winning screen presence" and "raw magic" to him. He was happy with Rabbit'south "tender side" presented through his human relationship with the "adorable" Greenfield as his sis, but felt that Basinger was "really miscast". Roeper said: "8 Mile probably won't win converts to rap, but it should thrill Eminem fans."[sixteen]

Peter Travers gave the flick three.5 out of 4 stars. He said that 8 Mile "is a real pic, not a fast-buck parcel to exploit the fan base of a rap nonentity" that "qualifies as a cinematic result by tapping into the roots of Eminem and the fury and feeling that inform his rap." He praised Hanson's directing and the performances, and compared the final battle with Papa Doc to the fight between Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed in Rocky.[17]

Eminem's acting debut received more often than not positive reviews.[sixteen] [18] [19] [20]

Elevation lists [edit]

8 Mile has been named in diverse year-end and best top lists:

  • second – Billboard (Erika Ramirez): Acme x Best Hip-Hop Movies Ever[21]
  • 7th – The New York Observer (Andrew Sarris): The 10 Best English language-Language Films of 2002[22]
  • 9th – Fourth dimension (Richard Schickel): Top x Movies of 2002[23]
  • 10th – Rolling Rock (Peter Travers): The Best Movies of 2002[24]
  • N/A – The Daily Californian: Best Films of 2002[25]

Awards and honors [edit]

In 2003, Eminem won the University Award for All-time Original Vocal at the 75th University Awards, for his unmarried "Lose Yourself" from the soundtrack of eight Mile,[26] [27] becoming the start hip hop artist ever to win an University Award. He was not nowadays at the ceremony, just co-writer Luis Resto accepted the award.[28] The film has been nominated for 32 awards, winning 11.[29] 17 years afterwards, Eminem performed the song in a surprise appearance at the 2020 University Awards.[30] [31]

Year Laurels Category Event Recipient
2003 University Award Best Original Song – Lose Yourself Won Eminem, Luis Resto and Jeff Bass
Black Reel Awards All-time Original Soundtrack Nominated 8 Mile
BMI Film Honor for Music Won Eminem
Most Performed Vocal from a Film – Lose Yourself Won Eminem
Broadcast Film Critics Clan Awards Critics Choice Award for Best Song – Lose Yourself Won Eminem
CNOMA Awards All-time Brand-Up Creative person for a Characteristic Moving-picture show Nominated Donald Mowat
Chicago Motion picture Critics Association Awards Most Promising Performer Nominated Eminem
European Film Awards Screen International Award Nominated Curtis Hanson
Golden Globe Award[32] [33] All-time Original Song – Lose Yourself Nominated Eminem
Best Music Nominated 8 Mile
Best of Prove Nominated 8 Mile
Gilt Trailer Awards[33] Most Original Nominated 8 Mile
Gilt Reel Honour Best Sound Editing in a Feature - Music - Musical Nominated Carlton Kaller
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Society Awards Best Gimmicky Makeup - Feature Nominated Donald Mowat, Ronnie Specter, Matiki Anoff
MTV Movie Awards[34] All-time Picture Nominated eight Mile
All-time Male Performance Won Eminem
Breakthrough Male Performance Won Eminem
Online Motion picture Critics Society Awards Best Breakthrough Functioning Nominated Eminem
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Original Song – Lose Yourself Nominated Eminem
Satellite Awards Best Original Song – Lose Yourself Nominated Eminem
Teen Pick Awards Choice Movie: Drama Nominated viii Mile
Option Movie Actor: Drama Won Eminem
Choice Movie: Male Breakout Star Won Eminem
Choice Crossover Artist Nominated Eminem
Option Picture show: Liplock Nominated Eminem and Brittany Murphy
Earth Soundtrack Awards Best Original Song Written for a Pic – Lose Yourself Nominated Eminem
2004 ASCAP Awards Most Performed Song from a Motility Picture – Lose Yourself Won Eminem
Grammy Laurels[35] Grammy Laurels for Record of the Twelvemonth – Lose Yourself Nominated Eminem
Grammy Award for Vocal of the Yr – Lose Yourself Nominated Jeff Bass, Eminem & Luis Resto
Grammy Laurels for Best Rap Song – Lose Yourself Won Jeff Bass, Eminem & Luis Resto
Grammy Laurels for Best Male Rap Solo Functioning – Lose Yourself Won Eminem
Grammy Award for All-time Song Written for Visual Media – Lose Yourself Nominated Jeff Bass, Eminem & Luis Resto

The motion-picture show is recognized by American Flick Institute in these lists:

  • 2004: AFI'due south 100 Years...100 Songs:
    • "Lose Yourself" – No. 93[36]
  • 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated[37]

Home media [edit]

eight Mile was start released on VHS and DVD on March xviii, 2003.[38] The DVD was released in iv dissimilar versions in Widescreen (2.39:1) and Full Screen (i.33:1) formats with either censored or uncensored bonus materials. It was later released on Blu-ray on April fourteen, 2009.

Encounter also [edit]

  • List of hood films

References [edit]

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  38. ^ "eight MILE comes to DVD on March 18th!". 28 February 2003.

Sources [edit]

  • Bozza, Anthony (2003). Whatever Y'all Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBNane-4000-5059-6.

External links [edit]

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  • 8 Mile at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata

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