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The filmвЂ™s title is the roadway that separates that trailer in the poor, white rural community from the poor, urban black areas where Rabbit finds the comfort of hip-hop culture.

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The movie follows one week in the life of Jimmy вЂњRabbitвЂќ Smith who, at the start of the film, is forced to move into a trailer with his boozy mother. вЂњ8MileвЂќ is not the life story of its star, but it flirts so closely with the path of young Marshall Bruce Mathers III to his stardom as Eminem that the movie feels like a rap remix - tweaked but with the same beats. If it does succeed, вЂњ8 MileвЂќ will be an unlikely bridge between Hollywood and Detroit that also illuminates on film how issues of race are bending to the backbeat of hip-hop. The success of the film awaits the critics and box office, but screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Puerto Rico convention of hip-hop DJs have created positive buzz. And this movie is going to change the way a lot of people look at him.вЂќ And then when he came here and I was with him, I couldnвЂ™t keep my eyes off him.

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вЂњJust seeing him on TV for six seconds I knew he could act. Why did Grazer think the unblinking white kid on his couch was the one? Especially considering Eminem has been excoriated for lyrics of venom, homophobia, violence and lewdness? вЂњI never had any doubt,вЂќ Grazer says. The producer had for years been meeting rappers, from Slick Rick to Tone Loc, looking for a star for a вЂњmeaningfulвЂќ hip-hop film, the one who could do for hip-hop youth what вЂњBlackboard JungleвЂќ had done for rock вЂnвЂ™ roll kids and вЂњSaturday Night FeverвЂќ for disco kids. Grazer had set the meeting after catching a glimpse of Eminem on an MTV awards show. вЂњWhen you bring people in, at least they usually look at you or at least eventually talk. вЂњI remember he was sitting here and he would not look at me, he would only look straight ahead,вЂќ recalls Grazer, whose movie, вЂњA Beautiful Mind,вЂќ won the Oscar for best picture of 2001. The course it took, which started two years ago in the office of producer Brian Grazer, is clearly the latter, and that makes вЂњ8 MileвЂќ the most intriguing music-star film in years. The trajectory of the вЂњ8 MileвЂќ project was set by the fame of Eminem, which could have sent the movie in one of two directions - either a commercial-minded farce with a hit soundtrack or a film that uses its built-in allure to take some chances.

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Its screenwriter, meanwhile, is the man who co-wrote and directed the 1999 film вЂњThe Mod Squad,вЂќ a failure so bruising that, when asked what in вЂњ8 MileвЂќ most reflects his voice, he cited the scene where the main character vomits backstage because he is so afraid of his audience. ConfidentialвЂќ and вЂњWonder BoysвЂќ but came to вЂњ8 MileвЂќ with a creeping worry that he might be a clumsy tourist in rap. It also has 57-year-old director Curtis Hanson, who was praised for the confident craft of вЂњL.A.

8, has in Eminem a star who has been a cannonball in the pool of pop music, hailed by some as a Lenny Bruce of street music and reviled by others as just another rusty nail on the cultural landscape. The bold result, a film called вЂњ8 Mile,вЂќ should make Eminem a cultural force of newfound potency and, just maybe, put him in a place where he wonвЂ™t have to explain himself anymore. Somehow, though, that is exactly what happened. And it was arguably ludicrous to assume he could shoulder a gritty drama written, directed and filmed by people with exactly zero background in the rap world. His music and videos were theatrical, but there was really no reason to believe he could carry a movie. That was in January 2000, when Eminem was a music sensation but not yet assured the twin titles of worldвЂ™s top rapper and American pop cultureвЂ™s most incendiary young artist. Instead, the kid shrugged and said, вЂњYeah, OK.вЂќ They told him he, too, could be a star and waited for him to be giddy or nervous or even visibly interested. They ushered the Detroit kid into the Hollywood chamber of power and sat him down on a crimson couch beneath perfectly framed photographs of grinning movie stars.