The film 8 Mile is not an autobiographical story, but it is loosely inspired by it, and the fact that Eminem, with surprising bravado, embodies the main character Jimmy adds to its deeper connection with rap singer Eminem.
It depicts only a brief period in the life of a teenage boy struggling to win a rap competition. It's set in Detroit, where Eminem actually lived, in a bleak neighborhood of shanty trailers and ramshackle houses, separated from the white neighborhood by a straight, endlessly long street called 8 Mile...
