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| Drama 1 hr. 51 min. MPAA Rating: R for (for strong language, sexuality, some violence and drug use). Release Date: November 8th, 2002 Starring: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Eugene Byrd Directed by: Curtis Hanson |
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Eminem plays a struggling factory worker in the lower class section of Detroit in a semi biographical tale of his own life. In the movie Eminem has just broke up with his girlfriend who told him she was pregnant to break off the relationship, now forced to move home back to the trailer park with his mother who is dating a guy whom he went to high school with. There he cares for his little sister as he tries to struggle to get money working in a plastics factory and hoping to make it big someday as a rap star. The rapping takes places at this little club where all the locals come on Saturday night in hopes of being discovered as they throw insults at one another in a rap form. There Eminem must discover if he has what it takes to make it big while fighting all the things that our wrong in his home life.
This is a much softer take on Eminem as in the movie he gives his car to his girlfriend when he thinks she’s pregnant, he cares for his mother and little sister, and even defends a gay man in a rap at his workplace. That’s where much of the difference come from unlike his own music where he bashes gays, threatens to kill his girlfriend, and lays into his own mother in on profanity laced lyric after another. Many people may have trouble accepting the softer Eminem as it is very much different from his own music. But through it all he shines through as he you can believe all the scenes about him doing everything it takes to make his dreams come true and escape the poverty life of 8 mile road. Eminem himself does a good job at acting, as he pulls from a lot of things that happened in own life to reach stardom. The movie does have some faults though as it tries to assault your senses at times with over the top profanity and senseless sexuality. The rap contests are nothing more than insult forums and not really realistic at showing Eminem’s rapping skills or how he could reach fame through them. All in all the movie does do a good job and is quite enjoyable at times. This movie is not for younger viewers, like much of Eminem’s music as well and many kids will and have tried to sneak into it. Parents shouldn’t show discretion on letting kids see this movie, they should just not let them see it.
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