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Smith lives in a trailer park with his alcoholic mom and her much younger boyfriend but spends his days, working in a garage, and looks to make ends meet as a rapper. He has two ways of doing this: One, through battle-rapping at a club spot hosted by his best friend, Future, and the other is relying on help from a so-called talent agent.

While this movie is highly entertaining upon first view, it definetly suffers from some horrible writing and real lackluster characters (other than its lead). For some reason, all of Rabbit's buddies have nothing better to do than wait around for him to decide what he wants. It seems rather unlikely that in a movie set in 1995 when white rappers were viewed as jokes, that a handful of Smith's black followers would stand around with nothing better to do than wait on their "white savior". His black militant friend takes the cake as far as "filler" characters go. He seems to just take up space as he waits to throw out a cheesy sterotypical line about being held down. He goes nowhere with these opinions and just seems to stand around, playing the background.

Eminem, himself, is great as Smith but he seems too much like a good character in a movie filled with bad cartoon characters. He's a deep character stuck in SAVE THE LAST DANCE. That's right. This script makes some of the same mistakes as "Last Dance" in its belief that urban kids stand around and talk about "hip-hop lingo" like they are explaining it to a documentarian. To be fair, it's not quite as bad as "Last Dance" but it does get really annoying. The story involving Smith and his mother makes for some good moments but it still doesn't quite make up for such awful characters.

This is actually a real good movie at times but again, the script could certainly have stood to go through a few more re-writes. And while I'm talking, this DVD could have used a lot more special features such as some videos, deleted scenes, and an audio commentary. Don't fear though I'm sure that there will be another release down the road.

Why do people review movies before they even come out?
I was reading some reviews on this site and lots of people judge this movie before they have even seen it...why? Do we really need someone's opinion on a trailer since we're too stupid to figure it out ourselves?? This was a wonderful movie, and I HAVE seen it. It was intense, colorful, and generous in its profanity, and Eminem really holds the spotlight with his engaging personality (and conflicts) and his realistic enactment of "B. Rabbit." This was well-acted and true to the core, so whether you love Eminem or just appreciate the hip hop culture in general, you MUST check this movie out. I think this removes all doubt to his acting ability since it is obviously better than any other artist-turned-movie star and I look forward to seeing him in more roles in the future. Unless you're really sensitive to violence, profanity, and Kim Basinger/Britany Murphy sex scenes, you need to see 8 Mile. I'm thinking of getting the soundtrack...wonder if will have the kickass freestyling?

Screw You Carl Lentner and Kosmo
Kosmo, you're a racist who can't stand to see a white guy succeed in black entertainment. STFU! And Carl, you're a stuck up a$$hole, who prolly gets ur a$$ kicked at ur school, punk.

8 Mile is a classic HipHop film. All the stars from Eminem to Mekhi to Basinger to Xzibit's cameo to great. This is a modern day rise to the top film. I'm just pissed that you haters can't see the greatness of this film.

By the way, Belly was tight but it wasn't as good(as far as acting) as 8 Mile.

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