Jimmy Smith Jr: You ever wondered at what point you gotta just say "f**k it, man". You ever wondered at what point you gotta stop livin' up here, and start livin' down here?
When Jimmy and Wink are walking to the bus stop, and Jimmy says "don't tell anyone I'm living back here man", they are just about to walk past a blue and white trailer. But when it cuts to the next shot with Wink saying "I heard you got caught out", they have walked about 15 feet past the trailer. See more...
The car that Eminem drives round in during the film is the actual car that was given to Eminem by his mother Debbie back in 1990. Proof even gave it a nickname: The Stinkin Lincoln. See more...
Directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Brittany Murphy, Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer (add more)
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During the scene where B-rabbit, Future, Cheddar Bob and Sol George park in some kind of parking structure and join in on a freestyle circle, right after B-rabbit finishes his freestyle, Sol George breaks into a song and sings, "Now I'm the dashiki smoking that ling lingy, 10 freaky girls inside the chin chingy, girl when you see me ya better believe me....." Is that a real song or did they just freestyle that? [They were just freestyling, that is not a real song.]
Aside from the battles Eminem does with the extras in the special feature, how many of the freestyles in the film are actually spontaneous? [None! Eminem wrote all the rhymes for the entire movie.]
What was the name of the song playing during the battle between Rabbit and Lotto? [The song is called "Last days" and is performed by Onyx.]
Throughout the movie a set of numbers are mentioned 303 and 801 I think, but what do these numbers mean. [Taken from the 8 Mile trivia page on the IMDB: "The group 3 1/3 is a reference to Detroit's area code: 313. The suburbs on the other side of 8 mile, in 1995, had the area code 810, hence certain people being called "eight tens" in the film."]
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Not directly related to the film, but to Eminem's song "Sing for the Moment". At one point he says "you're full of sh*t too Guererra, that was a fist that hit you". Who is Guererra? [In June 2000, Eminem got in trouble for having a gun at a nightclub. John Guererra was a bouncer at the club that Eminem thought kissed his (then) wife. Guererra alledged that Eminem pistol-whipped him, but Eminem continues to deny the charges.]
At the very end B-rabbit's friend asks him to join him and help host the Battles. B-Rabbit responds by saying "No thanks, I'm gonna do my own thing" and goes back to work. What did B-rabbit mean by that? [What he meant was that he was going to go off and try to be a success as a rapper on his own without anybody helping him achieve his goal.]
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