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Kim Basinger as Stephanie, Jimmy and Lily's mother.Īlong its most impoverished sections, Eight Mile Road has, for several decades, been a destitute, dangerous strip of suffering businesses and broken windows.
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Brittany Murphy as Alex Latourno, Jimmy's love interest.Mekhi Phifer as Future, Jimmy's closest friend and the rap battle host. I am white, I am a fuckin bum, I do live in a trailer with my mom, my boy Future is an uncle tom, I do got a dumb friend named Chedder Bob, who shoots himself.Subsequently, question is, who are the real characters in 8 Mile? Definitely a race traitor is a better analogy. An uncle Tom is more of a white apologist. Eminem cooked and washed dishes for minimum wage at Gilbert's Lodge, a family-style restaurant at St. The lyrics of the album were inspired by his struggle to raise his newborn daughter on little money. An uncle Tom is just one step short of Samuel L in Django. Eminem's first album, Infinite, was a commercial failure upon its release in 1996. Its kind of like calling someone a race traitor. (Eminem), life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. And 8 Mile was the place where he came from. Its basically an old saying when a black guy is a friend to the white man. 'Eminem wins by a knockout' raves Rolling Stone, as the Grammy Award-winning phenomenon makes his feature film debut in this gripping story about the boundaries that hold us backand the courage that can set us free. 8 Mile (2002) - Kim Basinger as Stephanie Smith - IMDb.Īlso Know, is 8 Mile based on Eminem's life? 8 Mile is largely based on Eminem's life, most of the parts are relate-able, the parts where he had a junkie Mom and his crew and him rapping underground, and him working at a factory, him getting his girlfriend pregnant as a young age are all primary parts of his life.