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11/01/07
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8 Mile (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 130
Rotten:43
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus: Even though the story is overly familiar, there's enough here for an engaging ride.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Nov 8, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $116,638,030
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Top Critic
The film is really no more than a two-hour prelude to a climax in which our hero ... rhythmically tells people off.
07/23/07
When the climactic rap battle takes place, it's one of the most mesmerizing scenes from all of 2002.
05/26/06
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01/26/06
The movie doesn’t feel authentic and I think it’s because of all the white folks involved.
12/06/04
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05/19/04
Top Critic Eminem does a credible roughed-up urban ghetto impression of James Dean
02/10/04
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02/01/04
Hanson’s enthusiastic participation in the project is bewildering given how pedestrian the story is: poor, white kid keeps getting beaten down before a final showdown...
01/04/04
The whole film . . . coasts from colourless family melodramas to wacky-kid-hijinks. . . . 8 Mile is an uninteresting shell of a movie.
12/01/03
Com sua estupenda atuação neste filme, Eminem poderia facilmente buscar uma carreira no cinema.
07/25/03
Take away the napalm spread of profanity, impromptu scenes of steamy sex and the myriad joints that get smoked, and 8 Mile is basically a Disney sports movie with rap as the athletics of choice.
06/26/03
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