The tournament has three rounds and in each of them Jimmy faces a member of the "Free World". Jimmy's friends hail him throughout the film as an incredible rapper, but until this point the film only shows snippets of his skills. Paul, a gay co-worker whom Jimmy stood up for earlier in the film, agrees to cover for him. Jimmy initially doesn't want to go, but a visit from Alex changes his mind. However, a late night shift conflicts with the next battle tournament. Impressed with Jimmy's new-found responsibility, his factory supervisor gives him the extra shifts he had originally asked for. Enraged, "Wink" shows up with members of "Free World" to beat Jimmy up outside his home in the trailer park in front of Lily, with the mob badly beating him and leaving him with a black eye that's present at the final battle. Jimmy beats up "Wink" as Alex tries to break it up. When Jimmy shows up at the studio, however, he finds "Wink" having sex with Alex. The latter continually pesters Jimmy everyday with promises that he can help him "get big", that he knows people with influence and that "Wink" can hook Jimmy up with the support he needs. This begins with the deterioration of Jimmy's friendship with "Wink" (Eugene Byrd).
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The battle acts as kind of a "final conflict" with a rap group called "The Leaders of the Free World", who have harassed Jimmy throughout the film. He appears to decide that he will postpone his dream of a music career in favor of devoting more time to his day job and providing for his mother and sister.ī-Rabbit in the second rap battle at the Shleter in which he faces Lotto. He begins to question whether his group of friends, including "Future" (Mekhi Phifer), are holding themselves back from moving on to bigger things. Over time, though, Jimmy begins to take responsibility for the direction of his life and realizes that he has a large degree of control over how it will go. At first, he considers himself a victim of his circumstances and blames others for his problems. Jimmy comes to realize that his life has remained largely the same since he graduated from high school. Just prior to the events of the film, he ends a relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, Janeane ( Taryn Manning) and during the film, begins a new relationship with Alex ( Brittany Murphy), whom he meets at the factory that he works at when she arrives looking for her brother who also works there. Jimmy is focused on getting his rap career started, but he seems stalled he tries to compete in a rap battle, but chokes with stage fright and is booed off the stage. He has moved back north of 8 Mile to the rundown trailer home in Warren of his alcoholic mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), his sister Lily ( Chloe Greenfield) and Stephanie's abusive live-in boyfriend Greg Buehl ( Michael Shannon). ( Eminem) is a young and frustrated blue-collar factory worker.
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