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8 Mile (2002)
description written by member Zara:
The people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit, a border, a boundary. It is also a psychological dividing line that separates Jimmy Smith Jr. from where and who he wants to be. A provocative fictional examination of a critical week in Jimmy's life, 8 Mile stars multi-platinum recording artist Eminem in his first feature-film leading role, along with Kim Basinger (as Jimmy's mother), Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy and Eugene Byrd.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 111 minutes |
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8 Mile Movie Review by Seth C  (10/18/2006) |
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"8 Mile" was the biggest letdown I felt at the movies in 2002. Granted, Eminem's performance is great in the film and the freestyle rap battles at the film's closing are worth price of admission alone, however Kim Basinger's performance has to be one of the worst performances ever in cinema's history. Basinger, who play's...
(complete 8 Mile review by Seth C)
| 8 Mile Movie Review by Bobby B (1/30/2008) |
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8 Mile is a deceptive movie. It's formula but it's not formulaic, familiar without being tired, stirring without being manipulative. Several times it flirts with clich� but manages to side step it every time. In the end 8 Mile succeeds by doing what has come to seem an impossibility to expect out of a Hollywood...
(complete 8 Mile review by Bobby B)
You have to be freaking sh*ting me. A movie about "eminem". Does this guy really deserve his own movie? Is this what our society has come to? A movie about a drug peddling white kid with a sh*tty mom becoming a rap star. Hollywood makes me sick. And so many bright children are wasting their lives being a "thug". Total...
(complete 8 Mile review by King Dangus Kahn)
| 8 Mile Movie Review by DOUGLAS (6/17/2007) |
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Hey i didnt come hear to watch kim bassinger i came to watch eminem, if you get the disk it has the tryouts for the rap battles of the people who actually made it in the movie...anyways, this starts off with eminem listening to the notorious BIG at least they got that right rapping his way to the top, a very easyplot none...
(complete 8 Mile review by DOUGLAS)
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