Eminem's rags-to-riches drama. The people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit, a border, a boundary. It is...
Eminem's rags-to-riches drama. 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. (Eminem) from where and who he wants to be.
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75 %211 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
54 %32,167,884 reviewsAudience score rating
"We are hardly started in 8 Mile, and already we see that this movie stands aside from routine debut films by pop stars... Like Prince's Purple Rain, it is the real thing."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Writer Scott Silver and director Curtis Hanson dig deep into the (rap) subculture to deliver a terrific movie."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"As a vanity project, the film is more tolerable than Purple Rain but it's every bit as obvious and redundant."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Gritty and electrifying."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"Eminem is magnetic playing a version of himself."
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Variety
Variety"An exciting, well-crafted movie, loaded with (Detroit's) urban atmosphere."
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune"More funny than foul, more inspiring than infuriating, more touching than not."
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle"This makes a remarkable hat-trick for Hanson and is a personal triumph for Eminem."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Because it rejects easy victories, this may be one of the few inspirational movies that could actually inspire someone, somewhere, sometime."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"Riveting drama."
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A.V. Club
A.V. Club8 Mile | Details
Award winner- Best Original Song ("Lose Yourself"), at the 2003 Academy Awards.
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama, Music
- Country of origin
- USA
