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Review
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Not very many movies tackle the inner-city life and culture
of the black community with any degree of authenticity. For
that alone, 8 Mile deserves special praise, but this is also
a well-directed, well-acted drama about a young man's
struggle for self-respect under caustic circumstances.
Famously play by Eminem, Jimmy Smith jr. ("Rabbit") is a
budding rap artist, competing against tougher, rougher
blacks, in Detroit. He tries to keep his job at a
manufacturing plant, and his girl, while living with his
mother in a trailer park. Mother has taken in a jerk, but
not all of Jimmy's troubles are the result of external
circumstances. He himself is volatile, temperamental, and
abrasive.
Exceptional.
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