8 Mile (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: April 14, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Universal Studios

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring , , &
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Directed by
Music by &
Screenwriting by
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Executive Production by , , &

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 2002 - Best Original Song: Eminem, Jeff Bass & Luis Resto

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh75%

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Total Count: 213

Spilled54%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 32,167,908
In the tradition of Rocky and Fever, the movie is a shrewdly engineered piece of proletarian pop -- a story of triumph -- but, like Eminem's enraged lyrics, 8 Mile has its own kind of vile candor. Full Review
New Yorker
Apr 7, 2014
...Eminem projects the downbeat sex appeal and scurrilous, dead-eyed yearning of a rap-world James Dean....It's a movie of catchy rebel-underdog power...
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 27, 2002
It's easy to like Jimmy Smith as well as to admire him, because Mr. Mathers lets us in, with no sign of calculation, on the kindness, even tenderness, that Jimmy conceals from most of the people around him.
Wall Street Journal
Apr 7, 2014
...Eminem is magnetic playing a version of himself....Basinger is entirely credible...
Variety
Nov 4, 2003
...8 MILE qualifies as a cinematic event by tapping into the roots of Eminem and the fury and feeling that inform his rap....Eminem wins by a knockout...
Rolling Stone
Nov 28, 2002
Rating: 2/5 -- What (partially) saves this movie is the rap battle...why didn't they give us more rap? Full Review
Medium Popcorn
Oct 3, 2018
...Eminem shows real screen presence....8 MILE hits hard and provocatively close to home...
Rolling Stone
Oct 19, 2002

Product Description:

Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man who is desperate to make a better life for himself. Jimmy Smith, Jr., better known as Rabbit, is destined for a life of squalor. Living in a cramped trailer with his deadbeat mom (Kim Basinger), Rabbit works in a factory to make ends meet. His only outlet is hip-hop. Possessing a talent for freestyle rapping, Rabbit still hasn't managed to unleash his true potential. But his best friend, Future (Mekhi Phifer), is determined to make that happen. Future forces Rabbit to enter a freestyle battle that he blew the week before, giving him another chance at redemption. Hanson's stellar portrait of lower-class urban disillusionment, shot with uncompromisingly gritty realism by Rodrigo Prieto, proves that the issue is no longer about race, it's about money. Eminem delivers a bold performance as the troubled youngster who is still trying to find his place in a harsh, cruel world.

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